“You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.” PeopleStatesFactsFacesEvilIndividualStupidLogicCriminalsArguingInsaneHelplessness Author:L. Neil Smith
“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. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. 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.” WantHumansIndividualProcessChangeFreedomCommonCitiesLibertyPowerRightsDependsExerciseResourcesTransformationHuman RightsAccessArguingInevitableCollectivesUrbanMaking ChangesNeglectedRemakesIndividual LibertyCollectivityUrbanization Book:Social Justice and the City Source: Social Justice and the City
“Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.” PersonsReasonWholeIndividualResultsClassParticularArguingConclusionInstance Book:Works Source: Works