“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us forget that love is our most vivid manifestation and the most common power of life that is in… — 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
