Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

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

Raoul Vaneigem

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• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Survival
  • Rule
  • Extinction

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• 'Don’t you have a religion?' Dorolow asked Horza.'Yes,' he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. 'My survival.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Eyes
  • Wall
  • Survival

• The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Survival

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • World
  • Scary
  • Survival

• The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Hope
  • Success

• My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Survival

• There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Struggle

• We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Art
  • Beginning
  • Survival

• I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Father
  • Survival

• All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

  

  Joan Baez
  • Survival

• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dark
  • Survival
  • Selfish

• Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • America
  • Today
  • Education

• Baron Louis de Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish men in Vienna, tried to leave the city. The Nazis stopped him at the airport and put him in prison, and whatever they did to him there convinced him that he ought to sign over everything to the Nazi regime. Then they let him leave. The SS took over the Rothschild Palace on Prinz Eugenstrasse and renamed it the Center for Jewish Emigration.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Convinced
  • Jewish
  • Airport

• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hate
  • Understand
  • Laugh

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

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Survival
  • Consuming