Raoul Vaneigem

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

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

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.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

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.

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

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.

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

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

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.