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Lewis Mumford Quotes & Sayings

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40 entries tagged including 21 subtopics.
Last updated Mar 2023

Lewis Mumford Topics

Funny
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War
Traditions
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Democracy
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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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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past

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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

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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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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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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

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Generations quotes

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

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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood

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Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed

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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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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.

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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

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