#cities

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#capacities #compete #continual #democratic #exchange

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#big city #charleston #charming #cities #city

For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #crowds #looking #observation #people-watching

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

#desires #enlarges #folly #lessens #men

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#after #back #cities #come #had

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. ↗

— Bob Taft

#affordable #better #better place #cities #destinations

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#cities #considerations #great #importance #informational