“Daydreaming subverts the world.”

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

“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.”

“O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.”

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

“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”

“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 passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.”