Autre Ne Veut Quotes

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power, the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority.

The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.

Our society has become an employee society.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.