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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

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

Daydreaming subverts the world.

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

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

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