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Lewis Mumford has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…
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Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition…
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Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given…
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall…
— Sophocles
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Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause…
— Lewis Mumford
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and…
— Virginia Woolf
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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
— Walt Whitman
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And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, Even all that the…
— Bible
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