Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.

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

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.