Raoul Vaneigem Quotes


Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem Insults 100
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. Raoul Vaneigem Wealth 96
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the Raoul Vaneigem Death 86
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 Trouble 75
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 Industry 62
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem Reading 62
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are Raoul Vaneigem Rest 62
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. Raoul Vaneigem Power 61
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. Raoul Vaneigem Knowledge 59
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. Raoul Vaneigem Poetry 58
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. Raoul Vaneigem Poverty 54
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. Raoul Vaneigem Work 46
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 Revolution 46
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Raoul Vaneigem Nature 45
Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom. Raoul Vaneigem Work 45
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. Raoul Vaneigem Pleasure 43
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem Equality 40
the planned Chinese economy by refusing to allow federated groups to organize their work autonomously condemns itself to become another example of the perfected form of capitalism called socialism. Raoul Vaneigem Capitalism 39
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams. Raoul Vaneigem Consumerism 38
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Raoul Vaneigem Uncategorized 37
For myself I recognize no equality except that which my will to live according to my desires recognizes in the will to live of others. Revolutionary equality will be indivisibly individual and collective. Raoul Vaneigem Revolution 32
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 Dream 30
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem Book 28
The regimes jokingly known as democratic merely humanize castration. Raoul Vaneigem Democracy 22

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