Cities Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

— Luke Treadaway

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct…

— Ruth Benedict

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

— George Orwell

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

— Steven Pinker

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising…

— Anonymous

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

— Samuel Johnson

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every…

— James Earl Jones

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely…

— Steven Pinker