"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires."

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Alan Autry

#Cities Quotes #Perception Quotes #Momentum Quotes

“Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.”
“Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company
“I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.”
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing
“[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.”
“The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.”

Source : Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America

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