The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

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

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

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.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core.Love was the only language used

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.