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.

Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.