Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.

Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.