2,160 Quotes About City

Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.

8. Conditions of DialogueThe functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of ourselves (our uncoupling from the system of isolation). This is useful and utilitarian. Nothing else. All the rest represents only trivial derivations of the practical, and its mystification.

When I lived in a small town, the whole town got together to help my family when tragedy struck our home. Now in a big city, my neighbor one block down doesn't know who I am.

A city becomes a world when one loves its inhabitants.

Yerevan is hype. Tbilisi is talk. Baku is work.

I had come to this city because I wantedto disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen.Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible.

Cities are not only a place where we live but also a place where humanity evolves.

Euria was like most of the sprawling metropolises in Erhard: tall skyscrapers that didn’t so much kiss the sky as ram their fist through it, their shadows casting a perpetual false night across the ground where the unfortunate dwelled.

Downtime in downtown eradicates fine frowns.