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Sadder than the beggar is the...

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

With the truth, you need to g...

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The war was won on both sides...

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Laughter on American televisi...

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The multiplication of individ...

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

It is the task of radical tho...

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Kitschis one of the major cat...

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "clich?" in discourse.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

So-called "realist" photograp...

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

A series of accidents creates...

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

I hesitate to deposit money i...

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The era of the political was ...

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

If you are prepared to accept...

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

If there is a species which i...

If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

It is in love with its limitl...

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Smile and others will smile b...

Smile and others will smile back.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Every photographed object is ...

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie d...

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'?thique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux donn?es du hasard ou ? l'absurdit? d'une r?gle?

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

In its artless cruelty, Dalla...

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Computer science only indicat...

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

It is exciting to hear one of...

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

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