Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

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.

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

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

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

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.