75 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.

How can you tell it’s the end of an era? When a suddenly intolerable present crystallizes in a short period of time what was so uneasily put up with in the past. And everyone is suddenly quite easily convinced that he or she is either going to be reborn in the birth of a new world, or die in the archaic netherworld of a society less and less adapted to the living.

They hated children as they hated themselves; they beat them for their own good, and educated them from the perspective of their own incapacity to love life.

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.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

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

Todo o além é um aquém da nossa vida não cumprida.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.