Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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