Quotes of: Morris Keyword

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

John Shelton Reed

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

David Chipperfield

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Martha Beck

Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.

Martha Beck

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Peter L. Berger

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

Peter L. Berger

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Talcott Parsons

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

George Edmund Street

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Alan Aldridge

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Arthur Erickson

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Arthur Erickson

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Arthur Erickson

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Arthur Erickson

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Arthur Erickson

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Arthur Erickson

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Arthur Erickson

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Arthur Erickson

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

Aaron Koblin

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Aaron Koblin