"But, on the other hand, exaltation of the opposite movement: only what plays with one less dimension is true, is truly seductive."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"Fortunately, we have not reached that point."
- The Perfect Crime

"As a result, difference takes on another meaning."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

"From a political point of view, that a head of state remains the same or is someone else doesn't strictly change anything, so long as they resemble each other."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"Even if it speaks of surpassing the economic, theory itself could not be an economy of discourse."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

"And yet one can conceive of a world where it suffices to seduce things or to have them seduce one another."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

"In fact, this cynical conversation, which appears objective, functional, anatomical, and without nuance, is only a game."
- Seduction

"Whatever the violence, speed or noise which surrounds it, it gives the object back its immobility and its silence."
- The Perfect Crime

"Obliterating the object the better to mark out the ideal space of art and the ideal position of the subject."
- The Perfect Crime

"First of all Brahma created from his own immaculate substance a goddess known by the name of Sharatuya."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

"Transgression, prohibitions, phantasies, censorship -- everything is presented as phallic `quotation'."
- The Perfect Crime

"It might be that the person seducing actually loves or desires the person seduced, but at a deeper level (or a more superficial level if one will, in the superficial abyss of appearances) another game is being played out, unbeknownst to the two protagonists who remain mere puppets."
- Seduction

"The same hypothesis holds for the object of science."
- The Perfect Crime

"Beyond the limit [ex-terminis], the laws of physics themselves become reversible, and we are no longer in command of the rules, if there are any."
- The Perfect Crime

"Now, seduction alone is radically opposed to anatomy as destiny."
- Seduction

"Because nothing wants exactly to be looked at any longer, but merely to be visually absorbed and circulate without leaving a trace -- thus outlining, as it were, the simplified aesthetic form of impossible exchange -- it is difficult today to recover a grasp on appearances."
- The Perfect Crime

"In fact, Beaubourg illustrates very well that an order of simulacra only establishes itself on the alibi of the previous order."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"In politics, economics and the `human' sciences, the inseparability of subject and object is everywhere resurgent where the simulated objectivity of science had taken hold over the last three centuries."
- The Perfect Crime

"Fortunately, nothing takes place in real time."
- The Perfect Crime

"Already, biophysioanatomical science, by dissecting the body into organs and functions, begins the process of the analytic decomposition of the body, and micromolecular genetics is nothing but the logical consequence, though at a much higher level of abstraction and s..."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"In this way, the conquest of space constitutes an irreversible crossing toward the loss of the terrestrial referential."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"We are not far from this absolute point of repression where the stockpiles are themselves undone, where the stockpiles of phantasms collapse."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"Control by threat will be replaced by the more effective strategy of pacification through the bomb and through the possession of the bomb."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"And every step in technological progress, every advance in information and communications, brings us closer to that inescapable transparency."
- The Perfect Crime

"The critical function of the subject has given way to the ironic function of the object."
- The Perfect Crime

"The story's true meaning, if it had one, would be about sex - but in fact it doesn't have one."
- Seduction

"But the fact is that this nudity wraps it in a second skin, which no longer has even the erotic charm of the dress."
- The Perfect Crime

"An immense to-and-fro movement similar to that of suburban commuters, absorbed and ejected at fixed times by their workplace."
- Simulacra and Simulation

"It is merely the mania for making an image no longer an image or, in other words, it is precisely what removes a dimension from the real world."
- The Perfect Crime

"Artificial Intelligence."
- The Perfect Crime