The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
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I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
There's always - somehow a red carpet everywhere. And I think that, you know, it's a fantasyland out here, you know. It's… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
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People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
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