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

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

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

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

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

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

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.