Definition of Metropolis

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Definition of Metropolis
	Metropolis The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. Related Definitions: Chief, Church, City, Country, Dignitary, Kingdom, Metropolitan, Mother, Of, Or, Seat, See, State, The

Metropolis Quotations

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp

All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
Georg Simmel

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
Georg Simmel

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
Georg Simmel

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
John Strachan

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Joseph Lancaster

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
John Berger

Metropolis Translations

metropolis in Afrikaans is hoofstad
metropolis in Dutch is hoofdstad, metropolis, metropool
metropolis in German is Hauptstadt
metropolis in Norwegian is hovedstad

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