To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?