Cities Quote by George Orwell

When you think back today to a time more than 70 years ago when Germany was a terrible place, a place people were afraid…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future

— Daniel Libeskind

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes…

— Fritz Todt

“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the…

— Iain M. Banks

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It…

— Janet Fitch

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not…

— Norman Mailer

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about…

— David Cameron

“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.”

— Paul Cronin

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development,…

— Alfred Jodl