"Forget the damned motor car and build the……" — Lewis Mumford
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford has 99 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
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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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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important…
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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