Quotes
"I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price." -Bertolt Brecht
This line from Brecht's The Exception and the Rule is quoted in "The Revolution of Everyday Life," possibly the most well-known essay from the Belgian philosopher Raoul Vaneigem. "A man's capacity to produce or to make others produce, to consume or to make others consume, concretises to a T that expression so dear to our philosophers: the measure of man. Even the simple pleasures of a ride in the country are generally measured up in terms of miles on the clock, speeds reached and petrol consumption. With the rate at which economic 'imperatives' are buying up feelings, desires and needs and falsifying them, man will soon be left with nothing but the memory of having once been alive."