“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
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“With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by itsvery nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood.”
Jean Baudrillard
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“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Technology
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“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“You are born modern, you do not become so.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Innocence
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“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”
Jean Baudrillard
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“Genius is childhood recaptured.”
Jean Baudrillard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Genius
