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Metropolis Quotes

Consider that in 1800 Western powers claimed 55 percent but actually held approximately 35 percent of the earth's surface, and that by 1874 the proportion was 67 percent, a rate of increase of 83,000 square miles per year. By 1914, the annual rate had risen to an astonishing 240,000 square miles [per year], and Europe held a grand total of roughly 85 percent of the earth as colonies, protectorates, dependencies, dominions, and commonwealths. No other associated set of colonies in history was... Edward Said
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis. Pope John Paul II
Simultaneously a frantic, high-tech juggernaut and a timeless Asian dream, Bangkok straddles like no other metropolis the boundary between acrid and sweet, soft and hard, sacred and profane. It’s a silk buzz saw, a lacquered jackhammer, a steel-belted seduction, a digital prayer. Tom Robbins
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. Rem Koolhaas
Frank Miller quote: "Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that..."
Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis. Frank Miller
To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. Salman Rushdie
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out. Salman Rushdie
Jane Jacobs quote: "By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be..."
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. Jane Jacobs
Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton." "Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? What probability is there of my ever tasting the dissipations of London, the luxuries of Bath, or the stinking fish of Southamption?... Jane Austen
John Kenneth Galbraith quote: "The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became..."
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. John Kenneth Galbraith
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. John Strachan
Ezra Pound quote: "All great art is born of the metropolis."
All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. Henry Mayhew
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. Quentin Crisp
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. Garrett Hardin

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