Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs

Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The Empire doesn’t care if you surrender. The Empire doesn’t care if you’re hopeless. I’ve given up before, and it doesn’t help. It doesn’t…

— Alexander Freed

“It’s a tough universe kid.  Dirty.  Vicious.  What the Empire doesn’t screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or…

— Simon Goodson

In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger…

— Jane Jacobs

If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple…

— Nancy Gibbs

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe…

— Peter Padfield

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would…

— Ron Paul

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland