“We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.” ThinkingBelieveGovernmentI BelieveEasySoundCitiesNew YorkExpressionPicksYeahDataNew York CityGod We TrustCity Government Author:Michael Bloomberg
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.” MenGovernmentFormCitiesEnemyExpressionOppressionOpponentsDestroyingRebelBentAvant GardeSystems Of Government Author:Eugene Ionesco
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.” WayMayStatesPhilosophyChurchCitiesClassModernMiddleExpressionIntellectualOrganizationPrejudiceRateGreekAppropriateMiddle ClassBroadsFascismMentalityStoicismMarxismDespotismGreek Philosophy Author:Bertrand Russell
“There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.” TryingMindMeanStatesCitiesExpressionCellsRelaxAustraliaState Of MindReception Author:Cate Blanchett
“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.” ChildrenMomentsMightFacesWhiteAnimalCitiesExpressionBrokenStonesSilentClimbingScreamTowersSummitReposeCrackedChainedClimbing Up Author:Peter Ackroyd
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.” MomentsDreamMightFacesPoliticalMemoriesLossRaceCitiesParticularExpressionMaterialsProveInnocenceInjuryWoundedLoss Of Innocence Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day