Paul Virilio quotes

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. (Paul Virilio)
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. View quote
Paul Virilio
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness. View quote
Paul Virilio
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII, ] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy. View quote
Paul Virilio
The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies. Thus, in the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means. View quote
Paul Virilio
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind. View quote
Paul Virilio
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means. View quote
Paul Virilio
Images contaminate us like viruses. View quote
Paul Virilio
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there. View quote
Paul Virilio
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. View quote
Paul Virilio
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. (Paul Virilio)
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars. View quote
Paul Virilio