12 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
- Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
- We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
- The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
- The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
- Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
- To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
- Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
- Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
- Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
- Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
- In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
- In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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