Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

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

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

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.

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.