Quotes by Baudrillard, Jean

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discover >>

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear o >>

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems coo >>

Quotations about Hostages

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would >>

Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide int >>

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and >>

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Baudrillard, Jean