Yaşam, ancak, insan kişiliğini yöneten bu iki çelişen ilke -birey ve topluluk- birbiriyle uyuştuğu zaman gelişebilir. - Le Corbusier

The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various classes of workers in society to-day no long have dwellings adapted to their needs; neither the artizan nor the intellectual.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution.

When the cathedrals were white, spirit was triumphant. But today the cathedrals of France are black and the spirit is bruised. The works of the new civilization are coming together in a symphonic crescendo. The guiding spirit is faltering. The young act, but they do not know. The old cling to their accumulated treasures, but are unable to accomplish anything further.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.