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

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.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?