Peter Zumthor Quotes

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

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

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

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.

My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.