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“The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.”

Common Broken Summer Window Winter Studios Naps Porch Inside And Outside Broken Windows

Author:Willem de Kooning

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”

Care Broken Cost Window Signals No One Cares Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.”

Wells Individual Community Broken Ought Protect Window Importance Police Illness Physicians Maintaining Fostering Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.”

Ifs Firsts Order Broken Window Fragile Fragile Things Broken Windows

Author:James Q. Wilson

“Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”

Doe Care Broken Lovers Cost Areas Window Determined Scales Signals Large Scale No One Cares Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.”

People Looks Mean Streets Car Broken Beats Window Glasses Broke Tape Thieves Covering Scotch Deterrent Duct Tape Broken Windows

Author:Aaron Karo

“I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.”

Needs Might Broken Grew Grew Up Tools Window Flats Farmers Tire Illinois Flat Tires Broken Windows

Author:Nick Offerman

“The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead.”

Hair Broken Window Destroyed Gym Prom Marie Broken Windows

Book:Beautiful Creatures

Source: Beautiful Creatures

“One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels