"Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Creative Quotes #Together Quotes

“Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.”
“I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.”
“To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.”
“That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.”

Source : Dr. Kevin Leman (2009). “Born to Win: Keeping Your Firstborn Edge without Losing Your Balance”, p.32, Baker Books
“The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?”
“The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.”
“I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.”

Source : "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.
“The real problem is that through our scientific genius weâ€™ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius weâ€™ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.”

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