Jean Baudrillard Quotes & Sayings

“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”

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

“The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.”

“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”

“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.”

“You are born modern, you do not become so.”

“There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.”

“If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.”

“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”

“The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.”