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

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

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

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.

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.