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

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

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

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

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.

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

Hope is the leash of submission.