“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!” ShouldShowsSeemsCitiesGoneModernShould HaveBusySensesVenice Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.” IfsShouldJobsCitiesCompanyParticularAreasShould HaveAssumingPopulationLogicalCategories Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.” KnowsShouldLongStatesThreeTermUnitedCitiesUnited StatesGroupsBuildingReturnPercentInvestingFinancialBritishCoreBlockSubstanceLong TermFundGapsInvestorsQuartersContinuingRhetoricPeersCompoundsAnnualsHighlightsEmulateProvidersPortfoliosBuilding BlocksVanguardIndex FundsFinancial ServicesPeer Group Author:Jonathan Davis
“As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.” MenGivingShouldLooksAmericaLyingNightCitiesProudProtectMen And WomenShiningThanksHillsEvery NightUniforms Author:Robin Hayes
“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.” ShouldHas BeensHomeNaturalPoorCitiesMoralEventsPlanetsMembersResourcesShould HaveWake UpResponsibleClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeObligationWeatherVulnerableAffectedFragileSustainabilityConsumerismSevereUnpredictableTemperatureRecklessShould Have BeenNatural ResourcesDroughtStewardsIrreplaceableFloodingMoral ObligationDevouringCoastalPoor And Vulnerable Author:Desmond Tutu
“People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingCountryHelpingTogetherCitiesGroupsTaxesBenefitsTownsJust BeingHelping Each OtherLarge GroupsPaying Taxes Author:Michael Schur
“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.” PeopleWorldShouldBelieveDoeStatesGivenForceI BelieveNationsCommunityDecisionCitiesHavensDon't BelieveCompromiseInferiorsGiven UpDefective Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good. What does my faith say about the fact that a girl can't be a nuclear physicist because she's black and from the inner city? My faith says, no, that's not what God intended. It pulls it back into the public arena the idea that there's got to be something fair for all of us.” IfsShouldDoeIdeasFactsGirlBlackCitiesFairsNuclearArenaPhysicistInner City Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco” MenShouldTwoCitiesEvery ManSan Francisco Author:Gene Fowler
“Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.” PeopleShouldEndsCountryCitiesViolenceInnocentKnivesElsewhereAttackingJerusalemSiegeUnder Siege Author:John F. Kerry
“My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.” PeopleShouldTryingKindDifferentDesireGamesPoorLevelsCitiesRichDesperateSurvivingDifferent Levels Author:Ai Weiwei
“We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.” ShouldRaceCitiesCitizensMassOriginalsFortunate Author:Isocrates
“It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.” WayWantShouldTogetherCitiesMajorityAfrican AmericanChocolateBe YouNew OrleansAmerican Cities Author:Ray Nagin
“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.” PeopleKnowsShouldDoeCitiesUnionsChinaConsistentSovietSoviet UnionMotorManhattanPentagonGeneral Motors Author:Ralph Nader
“If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.” IfsThinkingWantShouldCitiesLeaderStoresChainsSan Francisco Author:Chicken John
“Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe.” ShouldStillsCountryStatesMovingUnitedCitiesAttentionTalkingUnited StatesParticularDrawsEuropeInternationalDevelopingVisibleAssetsNot TalkingRadarGreat CitiesDeveloping Countries Author:Charles Landry
“In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city's high level of craziness - something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.” WorldShouldSometimesFactsTogetherBeautifulCultureNaturalInterestingLevelsCitiesOffersCrossesLondonAttractiveImmigrantsVery InterestingParallelsHigh LevelCrazinessNatural ThingsAmsterdam Author:Charles Landry
“Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is that activities should not just be limited to the building, but that the concert hall should symbolize a general mood of creative rejuvenation.” ShouldImportantCitiesCreativeBuildingActivityImportant ThingsAttractionMoodHallsConcertsRejuvenation Author:Charles Landry
“I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.” PeopleShouldBelieveCountryStatesI BelievePayCitiesSuccessfulTownsOur Country Author:John Catsimatidis
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.” MenWorldShouldDoeMadeEarthMotherCommunityAnimalCitiesMistakeWorstMankindBuildingEvidenceMental HealthIsolationMother EarthGregarious Author:Ralph Borsodi
“That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.” PeopleShouldStillsFactsSeemsTogetherOrderNumbersCitiesQuietSightObviousAcceptedEnjoyedDesignerEmptinessAssetsPremisesPlanners Author:Jane Jacobs