"The modernists discarded millennia of slowly accumulating common sense for the sake of shallow prescriptions and totalitarian schemes"

Roger Scruton

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue

"Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification"

Roger Scruton

The further a society drifts from the truth....

The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it
                                          George Orwell

life is what happens when you are making other plans

John Lennon

‘I don’t judge Homer and Marge – that’s for a vengeful God to do,’ 

-Maude Flanders (Ned Flanders' wife)

“I take walks,” he said. “Long walks. We believe in exercise, physical fitness, but as for commercial sport, that’s a racket. Commercial sport is the pleasure of the idle rich. The ice of gambling stems from it.”

 — Shadow Box, George Plimpton interviewing Malcolm X