Abandonment Quote by Dean Spade

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

— Jonah Goldberg

Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit…

— Keller Easterling

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social…

— Howard Mansfield

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

— Magnus Larsson

In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib.…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

— Rahul Gandhi