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Society has officially declared itself to be spectacular. To be known outside spectacular relations is already to be known as an enemy of society.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §7
We have dispensed with that disturbing conception, which was dominant for over two hundred years, in which a society was open to criticism or transformation, reform or revolution. 
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §8
The whole history of spectacular society called for the secret services to play the pivotal role; for it is in them that the features and force of such a society are concentrated to the highest degree.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §28
From the very beginning I have devoted myself to overthrowing this society, and I have acted accordingly.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
It is well known that this society signs a sort of peace treaty with its most outspoken enemies by granting them a place in its spectacle. I am, in fact, the only present-day individual with any negative or underground notoriety whom it has not managed to get to appear on that stage of renunciation.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Nowhere did I seek a peaceable society—which is fortunate, because I never found one.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
We can truly understand this society only by negating it.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §199
The days of this society are numbered; its reasons and its merits have been weighed in the balance and have been found wanting; its inhabitants are divided into two sides, one of which wants this society to disappear.
Guy Debord, Préface à la quatrième édition italienne de « La société du spectacle »
Everything is said about this society except what it really is: a society dominated by commodities and spectacles.
Mustapha Khayati, De la misère en milieu étudiant
What we call “society” is in reality a country of gangsters dominated by a State as its organizer.
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International
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