Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.

For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no longer spot on.

I live in a dangerous part of Los Angeles. It's called... Los Angeles.

I have been lucky; I have never been followed or harassed and I do tend to drive alone at night, but I'd always inadvertently opt for a route that has more traffic or has police or rangers stationed in the vicinity.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.

If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.

It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!

Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory)

I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.