"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."

-- David Hare

#Civilization Quotes #Tendencies Quotes #Barbarism Quotes

“There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.”
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.”
“You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.”
“A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.”
“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”
“It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.”
“Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.”
“He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.31, Verso

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