Lewis Mumford Quotes

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a re...

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of...

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parki...

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solel...

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary...

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and ...

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed...

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of tru...

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation and without being allowed...

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord ...

The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise ...