Tadao Ando Quotes

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

Tadao Ando

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• I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Suffering