Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.