Big cities Quote by Adolf Hitler

“But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration of people…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities…

— Anonymous

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the…

— Berenice Abbott

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate…

— Jane Jacobs

“As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism.…

— Andrei Codrescu