A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — 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 condemns both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action… — 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
