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Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people…

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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…
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live. — Nancy Thayer
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History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
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If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for… — Du Mu
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from… — Simone de Beauvoir
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way.… — Alexander Herzen
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An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London

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