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“In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
Source : Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)
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“In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.”
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“Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.”
Source : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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“Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.”
Source : Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”
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“You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.”
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“I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.”
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“When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.”
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“More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.”
