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

“Qu’est-ce que le nihilisme ? Rozanov répond parfaitement à la question quand il écrit : “La représentation est terminée. Le public se lève. Il est temps d’enfiler son manteau et de rentrer à la maison. On se retourne : plus de manteau ni de maison.”

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

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

“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.”

“Daydreaming subverts the world.”