Money Quote by Samuel Goldwyn

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

— Vikas Swarup

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

— Li Keqiang

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying…

— George Orwell

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children,…

— Albion Fellows Bacon

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

— Cyril Connolly

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest…

— James Howard Kunstler

I'm sort of a slob.

— Patricia Heaton

“the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring…

— Marlon James