C Quotes
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“City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!”
“City life can manufacture depression with no expiry date”
“City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“City lights shine bright on my complexion,
Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
Life is a green light, one star, no script,
Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.”
“City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.”
“City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.”
“City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. " Quien no ha visto Sevilla, " runs a saying, " no ha visto maravilla ".”
Source: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
“City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.”
“City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!”
“City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.”
Source: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
“City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.”
“City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.”
“City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.”
“City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.”
Source: Tugman's Passage
“City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.”
“City Planners, collectively, play a huge role in societies’ ability to steward capital wisely. With most of humanity living in cities, their efficiency or lack there of has huge implications for how people interact with resources. And from an ESG perspective, the condition of civilization can be largely measured by the interactions between people and resources”
“City Planning and zoning have huge impacts on a city’s ability to steward various kinds of capital wisely.”
“City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.”
“City streets are a feast of faces; choose what to behold.”
“City wits, country humorists.”
“City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.”
“City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.”
“City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down”
Source: Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte
“CIV
Morto o Rei volta de novo a guerra
Diferente das havidas até então
Luta fratricida por esta terra,
Sem prego, jugo, nem vitupério, qual razão
Que não seja o poder qu´ela encerra
Pelo qual não se encontra solução…
Sentiram a destruição de Marte
Aqueles que optaram por sua arte.”
Source: Esta é a Ditosa Pátria Minha Amada
“Civarda Türkiye"nin en büyük filozofu sayılan pek meşhur bir derviş yaşıyordu; ona fikir sormaya gittiler. Sözcü Pangloss"tu, adama şöyle dedi: "Üstat, insan gibi tuhaf bir hayvanın niçin yaratıldığını sormaya geldik size."
"İşinize bakın," dedi derviş," sizi ne alakadar eder?"
"Ama muhterem peder," dedi Candide,"dünya müthiş kötülüklerle dolu."
"Hayır olmuş şer olmuş, ne fark eder?" dedi derviş. "Majesteleri Mısır"a gemi gönderdiğinde, gemideki farelerin rahatını dert eder mi?"
"Öyleyse ne yapmalıyız?" diye sordu Pangloss.
"Çenenizi kapayın," dedi derviş.
Pangloss, "Nedenler ve sonuçlar, mümkün dünyaların en iyisi, kötülüğün kökeni, ruhun doğası ve önceden tesis edilmiş ahenk hakkında küçük bir sohbet yapabileceğimizi düşünmüştüm," deyince, derviş kapıyı yüzlerine çarptı.”
Source: Candide, or Optimism
“Civic charity is easy to talk about but tremendously difficult to practice - mainly because a lot of people don't reciprocate. Some people will be rude and obnoxious and will laugh at us when we try to engage with them charitably. They will see our generosity as a sign of weakness and take advantage of our good nature to abuse us further. We will forgive them the requisite seventy times seven times, and they will keep on offending us. Charity always works this way, both the civic kind and the 'love-other-people-like-God-loves-you' kind.
We need not think, however, that we are shirking our duties or abandoning our causes when we decline to angrily denounce those on the other side or to treat them like subhuman imbeciles. Charitable engagement does not always change people's hearts and minds, but the number of times it has done so is not zero - which gives charity a better track record than anger, contempt, and derision. Ultimately, though, mature and thoughtful people do not allow the way other people treat them to determine how they treat other people; when we do this, we surrender an enormous amount of power to people who do not wish us well.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“Civic duty is the precursor to civil liberty.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.”
“Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.”
Source: Civic Responsibility and Higher Education
“Civic flattery - or a political culture that allows people to appear to engage in civic discourse without ever having their opinions, or even their claims of fact, seriously challenged - is ultimately more damaging to democracy than civic enmity. When we incorporate civic flattery into our personal relationships, we get shallow, insincere friendships. When we use it as the basis for political alliances, we get echo chambers. And when a skilled political manipulator flatters a large portion of the population in an attempt to acquire and consolidate power, we get perhaps the most dangerous test that a democratic society can ever face: the emergence of a demagogue.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no. This is emergent. The localism of our time is networked powerfully. And so, for instance, consider the ways that strategies for making cities more bike-friendly have spread so rapidly from Copenhagen to New York to Austin to Boston to Seattle. Think about how experiments in participatory budgeting, where everyday citizens get a chance to allocate and decide upon the allocation of city funds. Those experiments have spread from Porto Alegre, Brazil to here in New York City, to the wards of Chicago. Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like. In China, all across that country, members of the New Citizens' Movement are beginning to activate and organize to fight official corruption and graft, and they're drawing the ire of officials there, but they're also drawing the attention of anti-corruption activists all around the world. In Seattle, where I'm from, we've become part of a great global array of cities that are now working together bypassing government altogether, national government altogether, in order to try to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol. All of these citizens, united, are forming a web, a great archipelago of power that allows us to bypass brokenness and monopolies of control.”
“Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
“Civic sense without common sense leads to mob violence.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.”
“Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.”
“Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.”
“Civil asset forfeiture was originally intended as a way to cripple organized crime through the seizure of property used in a criminal enterprise. Regrettably, it has become a tool for unscrupulous law enforcement officials, acting without due process, to profit by destroying the livelihood of innocent individuals, many of whom never recover the lawful assets taken from them. When the rights of the innocent can be so easily violated, no one’s rights are safe. We call on Congress and state legislatures to enact reforms to protect law-abiding citizens against abusive asset forfeiture tactics.”
Source: Republican Platform 2016
“Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.”
“Civil conversations about personal perspective will be welcome in the bunker, if only because we’ll be cognizant of the fact that incivility didn’t work out too well, given the whole apocalypse thing.”
“Civil defense must be rooted in dialogue, not death.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Civil Discourse (The Sonnet)
Be a friend to the just,
But a parent to the unjust.
There is no place for hate,
Restrain the hater, but do not hurt.
The paradigm of revolution needs reform,
We must make it grow out of cruelty,
For cruelty is not the cure for cruelty,
We must treat it with the light of sanity.
It is a sad state of affairs when,
Violence becomes a part of civil discourse.
How can we possibly call ourselves civilized,
If mere disagreement breaks out into violent uproars!
So I repeat, cruelty is not the answer to cruelty.
Work to destroy hate without destroying the human spirit.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it...
In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”
“Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.”
Source: Collected Works
“Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.”