Broken window may refer to:
- The parable of the broken window, a parable from an 1850 essay by Frédéric Bastiat that originated the "broken window fallacy" of economics.
- "Broken Windows", a 1982 magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling that originated the "broken windows theory" of sociology.
- Fixing Broken Windows, a 1996 book by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles that further popularized the broken windows theory.
- "Broken Window", the B-side to the 2007 single "Keep the Car Running" by Arcade Fire
- The Broken Window, a 2008 crime thriller novel by Jeffery Deaver
Famous quotes containing the words broken and/or window:
“Had we never lov’d sae kindly,
Had we never lov’d sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne’er been broken hearted.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)