Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.

Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.