Paul Virilio Quotes

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.

Paul Virilio

• People
• Real
• Collaboration

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

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.

Paul Virilio

• People
• Great
• Military

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Paul Virilio

• Images
• Viruses
• Contaminate

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.

Paul Virilio

• Time
• Technology
• Progress

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Paul Virilio

• World
• Light

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Paul Virilio

• War

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.

Paul Virilio

• War

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

• Truth
• Science
• Fall