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:
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more oblique as it speeded up. The wheels rumbled in her head, saying Man-hattan Tran-sfer Man-hattan Tran-sfer.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)