It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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