“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 spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”

“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. ”

“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”