Quotes by Spengler, Oswald

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in >>

Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her b >>

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. >>

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demograp >>

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day >>

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald