Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.” — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
