The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.