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.

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 word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

Its hard to say what's wrong when nothing is going right!

There is perfect love in Heaven!

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.