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Metropolis Quotes

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger
Village, Emigration, Metropolis
John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Cities, Mind, Metropolis

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

Pope John Paul II
Rooftops, Ashamed, Metropolis
Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.47, Loyola Press

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

Georg Simmel
Economy, Metropolis, Seats
Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Henry James
London, Form, Metropolis
Henry James (2016). “Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings: Library of America #274”, p.992, Library of America

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

H. L. Mencken
Nineteen, Los Angeles, Metropolis

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

Frank Miller
Flying, Next, Metropolis

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