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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 01:11 AM Jul 2013

The Best Paris 68 Quotes!

The more you consume, the less you live. Commodities are the opium of the people.

Since 1936 I have fought for wage increases. My father before me fought for wage increases. Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen. Yet my whole life has been a drag. Don’t negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.

"The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property." (St. Augustine)

Man is neither Rousseau’s noble savage nor the Church’s or La Rochefoucauld’s depraved sinner. He is violent when oppressed, gentle when free

Commute, work, commute, sleep . . .

The future will only contain what we put into it now.

Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as "progressives."

And of course...

Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!

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Situationist slogans from the Paris Spring: Comrade Grumpy Jul 2013 #1

Comrade Grumpy

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1. Situationist slogans from the Paris Spring:

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Mon Jul 29, 2013, 02:53 AM

Jul 2013

We don't want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!

Beneath the paving stones, the beach.

Barricades close the street but open the way.

Stalinists, your children are with us!

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