To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.