
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
version in original Dutch (citaat van Gerrit Benner, in het Nederlands:) In de stad kun je jezelf verliezen, en dat is goed. In een kleine stad gaat dat niet. In Leeuwarden [waar Benner woonde tot c. 1954] kwam je jezelf toch altijd weer tegen, maar in Amsterdam is er zoveel, daar is dat niet mogelijk. Een prachtige stad, daar leef ik op.
Quote of Benner (1977), in the article 'Buitenbeetje Benner verliet ons'; Dutch newspaper 'Leeuwarder Courant', 26 August 1977
1950 - 1980
Interview: Dan Deacon http://wxjm.org/interview-dan-deacon/ (April 19, 2015)
Source: The Age of Diminished Expectations (1990; 1994; 1997), Chapter 1: Productivity Growth. Page 11.
“I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.”
"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)
“I want to live in a city where the police don’t shoot you.”
Quoted in The Guardian on the first anniversary of the unlawful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police (22 July 2006).
“I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.”
"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)
Variant: I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.
Immer von Beckett ist eine technische Reduktion bis zum äußersten. … Aber diese Reduktion ist ja wirklich das was die Welt aus uns macht … das heißt die Welt aus uns gemacht diese Stümpfe von Menschen also diese Menschen die eigentlich ihr ich ihr verloren haben die sind wirklich die Produkte der Welt in der wir leben.
"Beckett and the Deformed Subject" (Lecture)
Cinema76 - Interview with Sword of Trust Director Lynn Shelton - 16 July 2019 https://www.cinema76.com/home/2019/7/16/interview-with-sword-of-trust-director-lynn-shelton - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210727191014/https://www.cinema76.com/home/2019/7/16/interview-with-sword-of-trust-director-lynn-shelton
“I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.”
"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)