Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

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.

We are all worthy of one another.

Giving is a necessary good

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.