Logo
Quote by Jane Jacobs
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder,

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

Other quotes by Jane Jacobs
Other Quotes from
Order
category

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Order

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Order

There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
Order

The order of the world is always right — such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Order

Random Quotes

The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
fitness

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. – John Dryden

Category:
Dancing

Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Category:
Woodworking

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. Hes adopted, though were still blood related – hes my cousin. My parents couldnt have any more children after me, so when Dads brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby. – Gary Numan

Category:
dad