Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

More Quotes by Guy Debord

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

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.