Glaeser Quotes

#1. As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.

Matt Ridley

#2. You can't kill what you can't catch.

Abigail Roux

#3. The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

Edward Glaeser

#4. Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

Edward Glaeser

#5. Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Petra Kelly

#6. One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23.1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide.

Edward Glaeser

#7. Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs; never forget that you are the editor too.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Edward Glaeser writes, "Cities are the absence of physical space between people."11

Timothy Keller

#9. It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

Shane Claiborne

#10. Knowledge is more important than space.

Edward Glaeser

#11. Do not respond to these insults, they will not increase your abilities. You will tire yourself needlessly.

Paulo Coelho

#12. The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

Andrew Dickson White

#13. Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

Dave Goldberg

#14. Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.

Edward Glaeser

#15. More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#16. An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

Edward Glaeser

#17. Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man's love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#18. It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Edward L. Glaeser

#19. For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.

Stewart Brand

#20. Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Anthony Wayne

#21. Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

Edward Glaeser