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. The City in History (1961)
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." The City in History (1961)
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. The City in History (1961)
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. The City in History (1961)