Civilization Quote by James Norman Hall Download Open image “When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.” — James Norman Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Decay Suffering
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not simply because… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
