« All Whitman Quotes
·
Lewis Mumford's Page
Whitman Quotes by Lewis Mumford
1 Whitman quote by Lewis Mumford
More Quotes by Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
-
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
-
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
-
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
-
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
-
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
-
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
-
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
-
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
-
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
-
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
-
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
See all 103 quotes by Lewis Mumford »
More Whitman Quotes
Popular Whitman quotes from across the collection:
-
Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor…
— Chris Christie
-
Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling.
— Roddy Piper
-
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
-
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
— Unknown Author
-
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
-
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him.…
— Sister Nivedita
-
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.…
— Damian Thompson
-
I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
— Ben Lerner
-
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
— Oscar Wilde
-
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
— Diane Wakoski
-
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…
— Harold Bloom
-
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…
— Annie Dillard
See all Whitman Quotes »
Browse Lewis Mumford Quotes by Category