Populace Quote by Livy

“Our city must remember that in the ranks of its enemies, lie hid fellow citizens to be, and that it is well to bear…

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

— Robert Hughes

“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble.”

— Mark Twain

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“So to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only…

— Thomas Bernhard

“If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge…

— Sunday Adelaja

“A people ought to fight for the laws of the city as if they were its walls.”

— Karl R. Popper

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat