Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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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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