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

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 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.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

One thing about trust is that everyone's for it.

The people closest to you need to hear your words of encouragement the most!