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Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
«Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
«Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
«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.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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way of life
«To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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large number
«In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.»
«People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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tire
«We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins.»
«In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem