The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

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.

and rain will fall on our eaves.

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.