There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums — Vinnie Paz Copy Share Image
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long… — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in… — Katherine Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was… — Shukla Bose Copy Share Image
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services.… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother… — Bono Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
![“The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.” quote by Immortal Technique](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/966/immortal-technique-2529_abandoned_the-average-ordinary-person-in-the-worst_2568843.jpg)
![“The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.” quote by James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/439/james-howard-kunstler-2886_20th-century_the-ideas-of-le-corbusier-that-actually_106405.jpg)
![“We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.” quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d2/katharine-fullerton-gerould-13_children_we-put-young-children-into-kindergarten_670781.jpg)
