"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." — Lewis Mumford
"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
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- 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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