"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."
"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."
"Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même."
"He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with."
"Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre."
"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."