There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
—Jane Jacobs
Topics: Order, Disorder
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
—Jane Jacobs
You can’t prescribe decently for something you hate. It will always come out wrong. You can’t prescribe decently for something you despair in. If you despair of humankind, you’re not going to have good policies for nurturing human beings. I think people ought to give prescriptions who have ideas for improving things, ought to concentrate on the things that they love and that they want to nurture.
—Jane Jacobs
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.
—Jane Jacobs
We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
—Jane Jacobs
The primary economic conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.
—Jane Jacobs
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
—Jane Jacobs
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Gordie Howe Canadian Hockey Player
- Hans Hofmann American Painter
- Tim Robbins American Actor, Director
- John Kenneth Galbraith American Economist
- Louis Dudek Canadian Poet, Publisher
- W. O. Mitchell Canadian Novelist
- Marcel Masse Canadian Politician, Bureaucrat
- Irving Layton Canadian Poet
- Sarah McLachlan Canadian Musician
- Alex Trebek American TV Personality
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