31 Quotations by Lewis Mumford
- 1. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- 2. A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of tru ...
- 3. By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of bored ...
- 4. Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
- 5. Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register ...
- 6. However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha ...
- 7. Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- 8. Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed ...
- 9. Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery ...
- 10. New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
- 11. Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the need ...
- 12. Only entropy comes easy.
- 13. Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- 14. Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parki ...
- 15. Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into e ...
- 16. The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an ...
- 17. The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into ...
- 18. The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into ...
- 19. The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
- 20. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a consci ...
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