"People must take a modicum of public responsibility……" — Jane Jacobs

"People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other."

— Jane Jacobs

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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for…
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to… — Aristotle
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they… — Richard Armour
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each… — Rudolf Arnheim
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know… — Antonin Artaud
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster… — Norman Ralph Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once… — Paul Auster

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