Overcrowding Quotes

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

You shall have sometime your house so full of glass that we cannot tell where to come to be out of the sun or the cold.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

Rome is the most dreadful cesspit … the great sewer of Tarquin itself would have been incapable of dealing with such a mass of filth.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

London is the greatest city in the world, but we're at a crossroads. Ordinary Londoners have been priced out of our city because of the housing crises. We're a city that's growing in population, but the infrastructure can't cope with the growth.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

I would never want to move to L.A.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

New York can be a tad stressful.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

The crowd which assembled to witness this execution was unparalleled, being, according to the best calculation, nearly forty thousand; and the fatal catastrophe which happened in consequence will for long cause the day to be remembered. By eight o’clock not an inch of ground was unoccupied in view of the platform. The pressure of the crowd was such that, before the malefactors appeared, numbers of persons were crying out in vain to escape from it; the attempt only tended to increase the confusion. Several females of low stature who had been so imprudent as to venture among the mob were in a dismal situation; their cries were dreadful. Some who could be no longer supported by the men were suffered to fall and were trampled to death. This also was the case with several men and boys. In all parts there were continued cries ... particularly from the females and children among the spectators, some of whom were seen expiring without the possibility of obtaining the least assistance, everyone being employed in endeavours to preserve his own life.

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.