What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Date of birth: 1817-07-12
Date of death: 1862-05-06
Quotes number: 234
Nationality: American
Profession: Author
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.