At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.