When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
-
-
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
You are born modern, you do not become so.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD