Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Revenge, Grateful, Power

• It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Birthday, Fake People, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.215, Verso

• The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Challenges, Politics

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.191, Verso

• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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