Raoul Vaneigem Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”

“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”

“The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.”

“The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.”

“Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?”

“As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”

“In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.”