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One has never said better how much humanism, normality, quality of life were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Jean Baudrillard

Quality, Vicissitudes, Said

Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.131, University of Michigan Press

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Jean Baudrillard

Safe Keeping, Bankers, Banking

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

Jean Baudrillard

Safe Keeping, Banking, Bankers

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

Jean Baudrillard

America, Important, Demand

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.91, Verso