Best Quotes by Lewis Mumford (Top 10)
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Lewis Mumford
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Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
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More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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