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

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

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

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.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

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.