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

“Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.”

“Any sensible person right now would join an organisation.”

“The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.”

“There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.”

“Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.”

“The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.”