Raoul Vaneigem Quotations

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

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Hope is the leash of submission.

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

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

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

Daydreaming subverts the world.

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

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.