The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

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.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

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

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

Daydreaming subverts the world.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.