Guy Debord

“As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.”

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”

“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.”

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