Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Trend is not destiny.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

War is a specific product of civilization.

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.