"Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed……" — Raoul Vaneigem
"Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general."
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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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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,…
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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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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
— Arthur Balfour
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Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation…
— Grover Cleveland
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking…
— Ansel Adams
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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist…
— Bell Hooks
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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is…
— Albert J. Nock
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for…
— Franz Oppenheimer
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