One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky 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
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums. — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world. — Franklin Graham 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
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a… — Terry Pratchett 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