Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
From Raoul Vaneigem
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
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