Ruins/cities

Famous quotes containing the words ruins and/or cities:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 15:33.

“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)