103 Quotes by Guy Debord

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.