Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
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… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
