As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. — Raoul Vaneigem Life Copy Share Image
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? — Raoul Vaneigem Boredom Copy Share Image
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem Balance Copy Share Image
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem Money Copy Share Image
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? — Raoul Vaneigem Anger Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Boredom Copy Share Image
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Delight Copy Share Image
“... pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church” — Raoul Vaneigem Altar Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem Consumption Copy Share Image
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding… — Raoul Vaneigem Arguing 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… — Raoul Vaneigem Dream Copy Share Image
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that… — Raoul Vaneigem Life 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… — Raoul Vaneigem Desire Copy Share Image
“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last… — Raoul Vaneigem Hope Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generTo be rich nowadays… — Raoul Vaneigem Contempt Copy Share Image
Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing… — Raoul Vaneigem Biology 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 Appearance Copy Share Image
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.… — Raoul Vaneigem Comfort Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Abundance 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… — Raoul Vaneigem Absence Copy Share Image
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,… — Raoul Vaneigem Air Copy Share Image
The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without… — Raoul Vaneigem Air Copy Share Image
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.… — Raoul Vaneigem Appropriation Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Argument Copy Share Image
“What drives us to despair is not the immensity of our unsatisfied desires, but the moment when our fledgling passion discovers its… — Raoul Vaneigem Desire Copy Share Image
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem Consuming Copy Share Image
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. — Raoul Vaneigem Hours Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Absence 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 Art Copy Share Image
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem Atoms Copy Share Image
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. — Raoul Vaneigem Forgetting Copy Share Image
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Book Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem All kinds 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,… — Raoul Vaneigem Civilization 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… — Raoul Vaneigem Advantage Copy Share Image
