There is nothing funny about Halloween.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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 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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