--- title: "5 Quebec Quotes By Jane Jacobs" description: "5 Quebec quotes by Jane Jacobs. Plus more from Jane Jacobs and more Quebec sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/jane-jacobs-1991_bans_let-s-see-in-those-indictments-you-can-t_610106.png" --- > [Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/let-s-see-in-those-indictments-you-can-t-level-at-sweden-they-never/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/jane-jacobs-1991_bans_let-s-see-in-those-indictments-you-can-t_610106.png) > [There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/there-were-lots-of-programs-over-the-course-of-the-two-referendums/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/jane-jacobs-1991_canada_there-were-lots-of-programs-over-the-cou_947200.png) > [ Unfortunately \[René\] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/unfortunately-ren-l-vesque-had-so-little-self-confidence-in-quebec/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/140/jane-jacobs-1991_knows_unfortunately-ren-l-vesque-had-so-little_1535948.png) > [ Some of the large \[municipalities\] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/some-of-the-large-municipalities-in-quebec-can-contain-within-them/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/jane-jacobs-1991_answers_some-of-the-large-municipalities-in-queb_2443263.jpg) > [ \[If Quebec became sovereign\] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/if-quebec-became-sovereign-there-would-be-one-level-of-government/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/jane-jacobs-1991_government_if-quebec-became-sovereign-there-would-b_2696292.png) ## Other authors on Quebec - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-duncan-ferguson-30880.jpg) Philippe Couillard 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quebec/philippe-couillard/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alice-temperley-11523.jpg) Philippe Falardeau 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quebec/philippe-falardeau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-keating-22410.jpg) Pauline Marois 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quebec/pauline-marois/) ## More by Jane Jacobs > [People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/people-who-try-to-predict-the-future-by-extrapolating-in-a-line-of/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/my-mother-used-to-say-when-we-were-children-when-a-boy-gets-a-stick/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Design is people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/design-is-people/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/to-approach-a-city-or-even-a-city-neighborhood-as-if-it-were-a-larger/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/cities-need-old-buildings-so-badly-it-is-probably-impossible-for/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/the-notion-that-you-could-discard-the-old-world-and-now-make-a-new/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/cities-are-an-immense-laboratory-of-trial-and-error-failure-and/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Development isn't a collection of things but rather a process that yields things. Not knowing this, governments, their development and aid agencies, the World…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/development-isn-t-a-collection-of-things-but-rather-a-process-that/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/most-sentimental-ideas-imply-at-bottom-a-deep-if-unacknowledged/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/beneficent-spirals-operating-by-benign-feedback-mean-that-everything/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/automobiles-are-often-conveniently-tagged-as-the-villains-responsible/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/i-tis-hopeless-to-try-to-convert-some-borders-into-seams-expressways/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/probably-the-most-important-element-in-intricacy-is-centering-good/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/throughout-the-world-dark-ages-have-scrawled-finis-to-successions-of/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/privacy-is-precious-in-cities-it-is-indispensable-perhaps-it-is/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quebec/jane-jacobs/#itemlist", "name": "5 Quebec Quotes By Jane Jacobs", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. 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