“The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.”

The house thinks of the present.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.

The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.

he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

How these people dressed, built their houses,

The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.

I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York,

I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

Karma’s not like a bank . Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities

Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.