Cities Quote by Socrates

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the…

— Plato

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race…

— Isocrates

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

— Plato

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

— Clarence Stein

“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our…

— Karl R. Popper

City were great to me in so many ways for the education and the people I was able to work with. I will be…

— Kasper Schmeichel

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted…

— Enrique Penalosa

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their…

— Rem Koolhaas

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

— Wyndham Lewis

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

— Geoffrey West

“at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic,”

— Barry Eisler