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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"One who rules is ruled."
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"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."

"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."

"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."

"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."

"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself."

"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."
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