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
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
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. — Raoul Vaneigem Losing Copy Share Image
“... pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church” — Raoul Vaneigem 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
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
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
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
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Delight Copy Share Image
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free… — Raoul Vaneigem Commonplace 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
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
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
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
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.… — Raoul Vaneigem Divine Copy Share Image
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. — Raoul Vaneigem Art Copy Share Image
“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us… — Raoul Vaneigem Love Copy Share Image
People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away. — Raoul Vaneigem Bases 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 Class Copy Share Image
“It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence” — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
