Broken Window

Broken window may refer to:

  • The parable of the broken window, a parable from an 1850 essay by Frédéric Bastiat that originated the "broken window fallacy" of economics.
  • "Broken Windows", a 1982 magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling that originated the "broken windows theory" of sociology.
  • Fixing Broken Windows, a 1996 book by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles that further popularized the broken windows theory.
  • "Broken Window", the B-side to the 2007 single "Keep the Car Running" by Arcade Fire
  • The Broken Window, a 2008 crime thriller novel by Jeffery Deaver

Famous quotes containing the words broken and/or window:

    “Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
    The darkest way, and did not turn away,
    A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride
    On that darkest day.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)