Robert De Niro Quotes

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Cities are ruined when they were unable to distinguish worthless citizens from virtuous ones.

America is so terribly grim in spite of all that material prosperity.... Compassion and the old neighborliness have gone, people stand by and do nothing when friends and neighbors are attacked, libeled and ruined. The worst thing is what is done to the children. They are being taught to admire and emulate stool pigeons, to betray and to hate, and all in a sickening atmosphere of religious hypocrisy.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.