Great Cities Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds… — James Buchan
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to… — Benjamin Disraeli
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the… — Ronald Reagan
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them. — Edward Glaeser
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New… — Godfried Danneels
The critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and… — Rebecca Solnit
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where… — Friedrich Engels
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed… — Jane Jacobs

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