Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. 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.
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.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
You are born modern, you do not become so.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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.
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.
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.
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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