The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

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.

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Forget about being comfortable at school if you're straight, if you're conservative, if you're Christian.

You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.