Quotes by Guy Debord

About Guy Debord:

Guy Louis Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to...

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

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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

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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;...

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Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Guy Debord

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

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

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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.

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

Guy Debord

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Guy Debord

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.

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

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On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

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Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

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Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.

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Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.

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Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

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Author Bio

  • NameGuy Debord
  • DescriptionFrench Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
  • BornDecember 28, 1931
  • DiedNovember 30, 1994
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionFilm Maker; Artist; Philosopher; Film Director; Graphic Designer; Screenwriter; Essayist; Writer; Autobiographer