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1. "A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy." ~ Jean Baudrillard
2. "If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." ~ Jean Baudrillard
3. "There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world." ~ Jean Baudrillard
4. "Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore." ~ Jean Baudrillard
5. "There is no aphrodisiac like innocence." ~ Jean Baudrillard
6. "The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it." ~ Jean Baudrillard
7. "Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth." ~ Jean Baudrillard
8. "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?" ~ Jean Baudrillard
9. "Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things." ~ Jean Baudrillard
10. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
11. "You are born modern, you do not become so." ~ Jean Baudrillard
12. "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated." ~ Jean Baudrillard
13. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
14. "…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as advertising: it is running to show you are capable of getting every last drop of energy out of yourself, to prove it… to prove what? That you are capable of finishing. Graffiti carry the same message. They simply say: I'm so-and-so and I exist! They are free publicity for existence.Do we continually have to prove to ourselves that we exist? A strange sign of weakness, harbinger of a new fanaticism for a faceless performance, endlessly self-evident." ~ Jean Baudrillard
15. "Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust." ~ Jean Baudrillard
16. "It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it." ~ Jean Baudrillard
17. "It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are." ~ Jean Baudrillard
18. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
19. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
20. "Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment." ~ Jean Baudrillard
21. "Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors." ~ Jean Baudrillard
22. "It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him." ~ Jean Baudrillard
23. "Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price." ~ Jean Baudrillard
24. "The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real." ~ Jean Baudrillard
25. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
26. "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." ~ Jean Baudrillard
27. "The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window." ~ Jean Baudrillard
28. "This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion" ~ Jean Baudrillard

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