What appears is good; what is good appears.

- Guy Debord

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

- Guy Debord

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

- Guy Debord

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

- Guy Debord

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having t…

- Guy Debord

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

- 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 wh…

- Guy Debord

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

- Guy Debord

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

- Guy Debord