"The way people in democracies think of the……" — Lewis Mumford
"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
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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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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward,…
— Lord Byron
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My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can…
— Fred Rogers
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I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of…
— Pope Pius XI
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Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases…
— Horace
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Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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