Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• Nature
• Giving
• Order
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• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

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• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

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• We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Order