Cities Quote by Aristotle

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”

— Sophocles

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

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic…

— Jane Jacobs

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without…

— Italo Calvino

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

— Margaret Mead

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs,…

— Edward Abbey

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

— Aldous Huxley

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling