City life Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need…

— Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political…

— Ilia Delio

“Soon the majority of the world’s people will be living in cities. We are now obliged to think of so many people demanding the…

— Wendell Berry

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics…

— Tom McDonough

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

— Manmohan Singh

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

— Stephen King

“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure. It becomes…

— Wendell Berry

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered…

— Raymond Williams

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated,…

— Jacque Fresco

“Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

— Raymond Williams