Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

"This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation."

"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 quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative."

"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

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

"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."

"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."

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