Quotes from Guy Debord

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

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

The more you consume the less you live

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

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.