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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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The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He…
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You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
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The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a…
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Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,…
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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle…
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find…
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And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio,…
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not…
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Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very…
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When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact…
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No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does…
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