Moby Quotes

No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

The Russian spirit, wedded as it is to the idea of uniformity, cannot achieve genuine order. The nature of its government is interference, negligence and corruption.

Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Form follows function straight to hell.

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?