Guy Debord Quotes

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led stray by the reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress. The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Revolution begins with one step

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.