Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.