Cities Quote by Solon

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less…

— Plutarch

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

— Al-Farabi

“And somewhere out there, in the river of addicts, alcoholics, wife beaters, doormats, overeducated legalized thieves, fascist police, and bitter rivalries— someone told me…

— Volatalistic Phil

What is the city but the people?

— William Shakespeare

“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only…

— Thomas Bernhard

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The City that knows how.

— William Howard Taft

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

— Robert Hughes

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.

— Anonymous