"Daily life is governed by an economic system……" — Raoul Vaneigem
"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."
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Raoul Vaneigem
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40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize…
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way…
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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,…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of…
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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…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to…
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The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
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