Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

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

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

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

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

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