The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

“The real consumer has become a consumer of illusions” (p.18)
“Fabrication of pseudo-needs” with the “reign of the autonomous economy” (p.19)
“Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable” (p.19)
“The society of the spectacle, where the commodity contemplates itself in a world of its own making.” (p.20)
“The spectacle is rooted in the economy of abundance” (p.23)
“Spectacular rebelliousness” (p.23)
“Proofs of their intimacy with the commodity” (p.29)
“Bureaucracy must be invisible as a class” (p.56)
“The power to determine an unchallengeable boundary line which is nevertheless constantly being adjusted.” (p.57)
“The bureaucracy cannot liberalize itself either culturally or politically because its existence as a class depends on its ideological monopoly, which, for all its cumbersomeness, is its sole title to ownership.” (p.60)
“The lack of general historical life also means that individual life as yet has no history. The pseudo-events that vie for attention in spectacular dramatizations have not been lived by those who are informed about them; and in any case they are soon forgotten due to their increasingly frenetic replacement at every pulsation of the spectacular machinery.” (p.88)