Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• 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

• 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

  Exercise, Power, Abjection

• Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Character, Power, Men

• Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Depression, Power, Light

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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