Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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