War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.