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I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.– Roland Barthes, The New Citroën, (1957) .
"Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes."– William Cowper, "The Task" (1785), Book I, line 736.
"What security have you for your own safety if every man of vile temper, of low instincts, of base purpose, can find in his own heart a higher law than that which is the rule of society, the…
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