One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

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

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.