Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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George Bernard Shaw
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Sigmund Freud
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Alan Turing
..[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody...
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Karl Marx
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Frank Zappa
More Quotes By Oscar Niemeyer
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
