A.G. Howard Quotes

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

Motion is a great tranquilizer.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.