There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.