To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
From Lewis Mumford
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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