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

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life..

Hope is the leash of submission..

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid fo….

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

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was p….

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of t….

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power..

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 ra….

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

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all mod….

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing..

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

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding ….

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

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges u….