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Form Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
- Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and…
- The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of…
- Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations…
- Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
- 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…
- 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…
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