"Only when love takes the lead will the……" — Lewis Mumford

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on… - Lewis Mumford

"Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then."

— Lewis Mumford

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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford has 99 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…
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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…
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
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…
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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