"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."
"Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse."
"Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre."
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
"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."