It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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