Raoul Vaneigem

“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.”

“Boredom is counter-revolutionary.”

“We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.”

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

“The world of commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not on life but on the transformation of life into work.”

“When the individual has been banalized to the point of being able to be replaced by anyone, he is ready to be replaced by a machine.”

“Our task is not to create a spectacle of refusal, but to refuse the spectacle.”

“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.”

“Self-realization is the absolute negation of sacrifice.”

“The history of our time calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.”

“Once the feelings of guilt and fear are gone, the possibilities of an entirely new way of life are revealed.”

“Sacrifice is the currency of the exchange between the masters and the slaves.”

“In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A king in chains.”

“The call to be a man is a call to be a traitor to the masculine ideal.”

“What is the spectacle? It is the sun that never sets on the empire of modern passivity.”

“You can't talk about the revolution, you have to be it.”

“We do not want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation is bought by the risk of dying of boredom.”