Jean Baudrillard Quotes

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Jealousy, Negative, Judgment

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

Love, Infidelity, Language

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Children

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Jean Baudrillard

Boredom, Second, Worst

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Jean Baudrillard

Time, Great, Smart

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

Today, Giving, Same

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Jean Baudrillard

May, Wonderful, Identity

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

Time, Death, Live

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard

Dreams, Wish, Statistics

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

Money, Afraid, Again

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Jean Baudrillard

Him, Others, Stop

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Courage, True

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Jean Baudrillard

Same, Once, Ask

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Jean Baudrillard

Sex, Price, Higher

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Future, Someone

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

Women, Themselves, Audience

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard

Good, Society, Deep

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Jean Baudrillard

Everything, Driving, Amnesia

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

Power, Learning, Same

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

Fear, Night, Dark

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

Evil, Principle, Radical

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Heart, Between

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

America, Fiction, Indeed

You are born modern, you do not become so.
Jean Baudrillard

Become, Born, Modern

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard

Negative, Between, Greatness

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 29, 1929

Died: March 6, 2007

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