We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

What is the city but the people?

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.