#cities

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#country #few #lonely #many #people

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#american cities #children #cities #cross #families

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#atrocities #committed #country #states #united

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#atrocities #been #compliance #could #followed

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s. ↗

— Evo Morales

#almost #before #bolivia #cities #enter

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#car #cities #damned #forget #friends

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#dream #finally #live #mansions #people

And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that—except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. ↗

— Joan Didion

#new-york #nostalgia #beauty

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#al #any #base #cities #city