Apathy Quote by Cyril Connolly

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and…

— Geoffrey West

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

— Vikas Swarup

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying…

— George Orwell

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean,…

— J. G. Ballard

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.

— Gerald Celente

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

— Aaron Rose

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there…

— Della Reese