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

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

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

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

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.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.