Humanity Quote by Ma Yansong

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities…

— Anonymous

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are…

— K.P. Yohannan

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more…

— Timothy Keller

“I’m crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and…

— Toni Morrison

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this…

— Fritz Todt