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

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

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.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.