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Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."

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




Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity."

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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.




Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."

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




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

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training..."

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.




Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it."

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

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 Quotes: "Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman."

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.



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

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 Quotes: "In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being."

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal."

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created."

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity."

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity."

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old."

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression."

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility."

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Order and creativity are complementary."

Order and creativity are complementary.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous."

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities."

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination."

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence."

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."

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



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one."

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine."

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.



Lewis Mumford Quotes: "In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is."

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.