Amazing Quote by Geoffrey West

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

— Vikas Swarup

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 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

The slum is the measure of civilization.

— Anonymous

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

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

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

— Cyril Connolly

“The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences.”

— George Orwell

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

— Spiro T. Agnew

A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways…

— Charles Abrams

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

— Spiro T. Agnew

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they…

— Bunker Roy