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situationist chrestomathy
Those who never take action would like to believe that you can freely determine the quality of your fellow combatants and the time and place where you can strike an unstoppable and definitive blow. But in reality you have to act with what is at hand, launching a sudden attack on one or another realistically attackable position the moment you see a favorable opportunity; otherwise you fade away without having done a thing.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The only adventure, we said, is to contest the totality, whose center is this way of living, where we can test our strength but never use it. No adventure is directly created for us. The adventures that are presented to us form part of the mass of legends transmitted by the cinema or in other ways; part of the whole spectacular sham of history.
Guy Debord, Critique de la séparation
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
Guy Debord, Hurlements en faveur de Sade
The adventurer is one who encourages adventure, rather than someone to whom adventures happen.
Potlatch #7
Alcoholism played a role of the highest order in the SI and it was also what made it quite ambiguous. With the caveat that we were never drunks or real alcoholics. Alcoholism never interrupted the thread of our subversive thinking.
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International
Despite the alienation of everyday life, the possibilities for passion and games are quite real, and it seems to me that the SI would commit a clumsy misreading by letting it be understood that life is totally reified outside of situationist activity (which would be a mystical rescue by the concept—witness the people who approach us and have this impression). On the contrary, it seems to me that this open field [champ libre] is more often than not outside of our collective activity, which implies a certain fatigue. This appears even more obvious to me when we consider the personal theoretical work that participation in the situationist project can lead some people to undertake.
Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale
Everywhere the respect for alienation has been lost. Young people, workers, colored people, homosexuals, women and children, take it into their heads to want everything that was forbidden them; at the same time as they refuse the major part of the miserable results that the old organization of class society permitted them to obtain and to bear. 
Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale
The spectacle’s social function is the concrete manufacture of alienation.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §32
As capitalism’s ever-intensifying imposition of alienation at all levels makes it increasingly hard for workers to recognize and name their own impoverishment, putting them in the position of having to reject that impoverishment in its totality or not at all, revolutionary organization has had to learn that it can no longer combat alienation by means of alienated forms of struggle.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §122
The repressive forces of the state of Israel can be undermined only by a model of a revolutionary society realized by the Arabs.
Internationale situationniste #10