Cease Quote by Alfred de Musset

“If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge…

— Sunday Adelaja

“You wander through this city, and wonder if anything you do will make up for the horror that keeps the world turning. To live,…

— Max Gladstone

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

“I embrace my own festering diseased corruption,”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as…

— Nelson Algren

If we truly are the greatest city in the greatest country on Earth, we cannot fail those facing the greatest need.

— Eric Adams

“Our city must remember that in the ranks of its enemies, lie hid fellow citizens to be, and that it is well to bear…

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

“Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it’s wrong,…

— Louise Penny

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

“Lies and corruption are the natural progression when communities are ruled by fear”

— The Sullivan Brothers

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind