the City
Meaning
Capitalized "the City" often means the City of London, the historic financial district. It is shorthand for the UK finance industry, its banks, markets, and regulators.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean.