Quotes About Mobility

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Ethan developed an ethos that over the years he whittled to a one-line mantra: I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

If no one goes to gravesides anymore, if you won't visit me there no more, I might as well have my ashes in a jam jar and be more mobile.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.

In 1781, John Witherspoon, a Scotsman who was President of Princeton, wrote, convincingly: The vulgar Americans speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain for a very obvious reason viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently from place to place, they are not so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain than there is between one state and another in America.

A Mercedes or a BMW can't make full use of its lustre, as it busily swerves to avoid the very convex buses along very concave roads. The existence of good roads would depend upon another type of wealth. A wealth that might serve the city.

LINC "was the first machine that you could take apart and put in the back of your car, carry somewhere else, put back together again, and it would run," Ornstein recalled. "That idea had never previously seemed conceivable.

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

The United States, we tell ourselves, can afford to worry less about inequality than the class-bound societies of Europe because here, it is possible to rise. Seventy percent of Americans believe the poor can make it out of poverty on their own, while only 35 percent of Europeans think so. This faith in mobility may explain why the U.S. has a less-generous welfare state than most major European countries.

Global supply chains, capital flows, and the cosmopolitan identities they fostered made us less reliant on our fellow citizens

This is an instructive model for the proliferation of other infectious diseases as population growth and "progress" create better roads and more mobility while reducing jungle and forestland. As a result, microbes that may have stayed in their particular niches for centuries or longer are now emerging into far larger problems.

PROPENSITY OF THE YOUNG TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND challenge power is now amplified by the More and Mobility revolutions. Not only are there more people than ever under thirty, but they have more—prepaid calling-cards, radios, TVs, cellphones, computers, and access to the Internet as well as to travel and communication possibilities with others like them at home and around the world. They are also more mobile than ever.