Order and creativity are complementary.

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

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.

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

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.