Slums Quotes - Page 5

• In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Distance, Men

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• 'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

  Dev Patel

  Nike, Growing Up, Teenager

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, School, Gay

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Love, Beach, Fall

  1968 'The Great American Frustration', in the Saturday Review, 9 Jul.

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• With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

  Eric Sevareid

  Cities, America, House

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
  Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Hip Hop, Gold

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• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Space, Achievement

  The Saturday Evening Post, 1968.

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• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Douglas Adams

  Struggle, Winning, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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• London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

  John Buchan

  Exercise, Care, Shapes

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.663, e-artnow

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• I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

  Eero Saarinen

  Legs, Chairs, Clear

  Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

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• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Real, War

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cities, World, Adequate

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• For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

  Lewis Hyde

  Artist, Library, World

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage

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• I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Heart, Garden, Site

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.2216, e-artnow

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• Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Animal, Cities, America

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.72, Vintage

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• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Sleep, Typewriters

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• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Fighting, Pride

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• The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Past, Hands

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Jobs, Philosopher, Landlord

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• That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Thinking, Ozarks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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• It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Men, Black

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• When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Men, White

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.14, Beacon Press

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• India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.

  Karan Bajaj

  Sex, Growing Up, Writing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.

  Katherine Boo

  Weed, Writing, Lakes

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