75 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

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

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

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.

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.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

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?