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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also…
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it…
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism…
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...
— Thomas Pynchon
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I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical,…
— Nicolae Ceausescu
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes…
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