Raoul Vaneigem

“The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.”

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

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

“Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

“The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.”