Urban Blight Quotes

#1. Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

Evgeny Morozov

#2. This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] 'effect'. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God's head (blamed God).

Dada Bhagwan

#3. We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.

Ed Catmull

#4. Oh, I would like to live in an empty house, with vines for walls, and a carpet of grass. No planks, no plastic, no fiberglass.

Mary Oliver

#5. Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#6. Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

Mason Cooley

#7. It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

Stanley Elkin

#8. A virgin priest. His idea of what relationship with a man should be like was probably something out of a Harlequin romance-but with a sex change for the heroine.

Marshall Thornton

#9. I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

John Lithgow

#10. the actuality of thought is life

Aristotle.

#11. Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

Jared Polis

#12. I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Wilson Mizner

#13. They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow

Lauren Beukes

#14. Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

Rebecca Miller