Cities Quote by Theodore Parker

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

— Theodore Parker

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

— Henri Rousseau

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where…

— Chris Abani

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

— Aristotle

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

— Margaret Mead

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

— Thucydides

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

— Daniel Libeskind

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

— Ayn Rand