The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

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

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

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

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

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