The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

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.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Our hearts and prayers will always be with you.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.