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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#adult #children #demand #festival #funny

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

I love doing concert music. ↗

— Les Baxter

#doing #i #i love #love #music

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#basis #dominates #enter #fiction #fictive

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#across #also #beliefs #declaration #democracy

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#learning #need #power #same #scholars

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#chains #deceive #harshness #helped #him

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#enchantment #family #fascinates #fiery #gives

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#ask #going #life-changing #questions #something