"The trouble with paternalists is that they want……" — Jane Jacobs
"The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so."
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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…
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New ideas must use old buildings
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More Changes Quotes
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
— J. J. Abrams
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
— Chinua Achebe
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
— Alan Ball
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Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
— Antonio Banderas
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective…
— Albert Bandura
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I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life…
— Brigitte Bardot
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But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures,…
— Travis Barker
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