Cities Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We…

— Ayn Rand

When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

— Lewis Browne

“There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had…

— William Hope Hodgson

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the…

— Georges Bataille

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In…

— Laozi

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor

“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty. Myths and legends walk…

— Michael Scott

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

— William Blake