Slums Quotes

106 quotes by 94 authors

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of… — Roger Rosenblatt
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
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there… — John Grierson
Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come. — Ray Davies
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering… — Katherine Boo
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. — Jose Padilha
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. .… — David Lloyd George
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those… — Richard Rohr
The slum is the measure of civilization. — Jacob August Riis
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that… — Katherine Schwarzenegger
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just… — Oscar Hammerstein II
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and… — Madeleine L'Engle
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of… — Terry Pratchett
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would… — Ezra Taft Benson
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. — Nicholson Baker

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