"As poverty has been reduced in terms of……" — Raoul Vaneigem
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
—
Raoul Vaneigem
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem has 40 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
-
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize…
-
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that…
-
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,…
-
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of…
-
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 the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
-
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to…
-
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
See all 40 quotes by Raoul Vaneigem »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »