"What was once called the objective world is……" — Lewis Mumford
"What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself"
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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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More Blot Quotes
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.…
— Coleman Dowell
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
— Saadi
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences,…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain…
— Varlam Shalamov
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our…
— William James
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact…
— Dick Durbin
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or…
— Thomas Chalmers
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