Daydreaming subverts the world.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

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.

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.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

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

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