Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need schola...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent repro...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager face...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the c...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of ex...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinar...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antago...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we hav...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in th...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD You are born modern, you do not become so.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be mad...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America tod...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the sma...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the s...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Genius is childhood recaptured.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transpar...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute o...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of d...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more cont...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countri...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it'...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after havin...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed els...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the deser...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always i...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an ex...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnifi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it d...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are li...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, a...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterat...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagon...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he h...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As wit...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more un...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance
JEAN BAUDRILLARD As for automobiles, they come to reflect and sum up the marvels of consumption. They mirror a societ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduc...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiq...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the s...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one does...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentalit...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the re...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR