Creative Quotations from Raoul Vaneigem (1934-___

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Raoul Vaneigem
(1934-____) born on Oct 12

English magickian, poet, philosopher, author. He managed to indelibly imprint himself on the Western Magickal Tradition and his legacy still attracts many new converts.

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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

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.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 5 (1967; tr. 1983).
R:	The Revolution of Everyday Life, Introduction (1967; tr. 1983).
A:	The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 7, sct. 3 (1967; tr. 1983).
N:	"Basic Banalities I," in Internationale Situationiste 7 (April 1962; repr. in Situationist International Anthology, ed. by K. Knabb, 1981).
K:	The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 7, sct. 2 (1967; tr. 1983). "The ideology of consumption," Vaneigem wrote, "becomes the consumption of ideology."