# Quote — Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

> We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

- Author: [Jean Baudrillard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard.md)
- Book: [The Perfect Crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/the-perfect-crime.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/the-perfect-crime/we-will-never

## More from this book

> Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

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