Jean Baudrillard Quotes

• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

  Jean Baudrillard

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

  Jean Baudrillard

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

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

• 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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

• 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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

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

  Jean Baudrillard

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Birth:	27th July, 1929
Death:	6th March, 2007
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher, Sociologist

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Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims, France. He was a French philosopher and sociologist. He wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, gender relations, economics, social history, art, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best known works are Simulacra and Simulation, America, and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

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