Quote by Raoul Vaneigem
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic mo

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

Other quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem

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positive
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Dreams
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Poetry
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Equality
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Equality

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. – Pratibha Patil

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Equality

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and thats not where equality comes from. – Matt Bomer

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Equality

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. – Herbert Read

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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle