Henri Lefebvre Quotes

#1. I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. "God do this, God don't do that." I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Jean Plaidy

#2. I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

Shirley Henderson

#3. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

John Milton

#4. What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.

Henri Lefebvre

#5. A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

Henri Lefebvre

#6. The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

Henri Lefebvre

#7. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.

Nityananda Das

#8. The crisis of the community, its dislocation, the distress of most of its members, went hand in hand with technological progress and social differentiation.

Henri Lefebvre

#9. As it develops, then, the concept of social space becomes broader. It infiltrates, even invades, the concept of production, becoming part - perhaps the essential part - of its content.

Henri Lefebvre

#10. A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Arnold Haultain

#11. In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Henri Lefebvre

#12. Photography is a generous medium ...

Lee Friedlander

#13. Nothing disappears completely ... In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ... Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

Henri Lefebvre

#14. Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

Henri Lefebvre

#15. Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.

Henri Lefebvre

#16. I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Becki Newton