Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. 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
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. Jean Baudrillard
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
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Jean Baudrillard
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Jean Baudrillard
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise. Jean Baudrillard
A negative judgement gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. Jean Baudrillard
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment. Jean Baudrillard
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising. Jean Baudrillard
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. Jean Baudrillard
Our sentimentality towards animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Jean Baudrillard