To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today ethics moral.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.