Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that… — 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
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
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
“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.” — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
“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
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
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
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
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
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
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generTo be rich nowadays merely means… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
