#cities

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. ↗

— Voltaire

#atheism #atrocities #barbarity #injustice #religion

With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#dreams

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places. ↗

— John Cale

#cities #context #like #more #much

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#because #borders #broken #cities #coming

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. ↗

— Sean Connery

#cosmopolitan #kind #madness #now

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#down #end #end product #in other words #live

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#christianity #cities #civilians #convert #countries

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. ↗

— Hope Davis

#cities #country #different #discover #fascinating

Nature made the fields and man the cities. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#fields #made #man #nature