Lewis Mumford Quotes

Lewis Mumford (30)

Birth:	19th October, 1895
Death:	26th January, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist, Writer

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  Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

  Lewis Mumford

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

  Lewis Mumford

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• Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

  Lewis Mumford

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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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• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

   

  Lewis Mumford

• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

  Lewis Mumford

• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

  Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

• War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

  Lewis Mumford

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

  Lewis Mumford

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

  Lewis Mumford

• 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

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

  Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

• The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

  Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

• One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

  Lewis Mumford

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

  Lewis Mumford

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

  Lewis Mumford