Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
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. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
