Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Work)
"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."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Dreams, Play)
"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Life, Man)
"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."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Poetry, Work, Love, People, Dancing, Drinking, Singing, Weapons)
"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Losing, Pleasure)
"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Power)
"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Poor)
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Boredom, Dying, Risk, Starvation, World)
"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Nature)
"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Life, Balance, Insults, Production)
"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."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Knowledge, Value)
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Life, Survival, Poverty)
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Order)
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Society, Work, Desire, Enemy, Necessity, Productivity)
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Equality, Freedom)
"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."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Life, Civilization, Contempt)