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Raoul Vaneigem has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial…
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests…
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…
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I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man…
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society…
— Winston Churchill
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine…
— Bertrand Russell
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All art is subversive.
— Pablo Picasso
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements…
— Benito Mussolini
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Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
— Joanna Macy
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
— Roland Barthes
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Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
— Johann Baptist Metz
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