Quotes by Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

Air

Drinking

Water

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

Courage

Inspirational

Motivational

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Beauty

Sight

Truth

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

Courage

Men

Needs

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

Class

Distance

People

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Concentration

Enough

Symbols

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Class

Opportunity

Spiritual

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Children

Loyalty

Race

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Lanes

Obesity

Traffic

Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

Adventure

Giving

House

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Accepting What Is

Achievement

Adventure

Advice

Age

Aggravation

Air

Ambition

America

Animal

Arbitrary

Architecture

Army

Art

Artist

Availability

Baby

Balance

Beauty

Becoming

Betrayal

Birth

Birth Place

Blessing

Blood

Brain

Brotherhood

Building

Buttons

Cacophony

Car

Carpe Diem

Cells

Chaos

Character

Children

Cities

Citizenship

Civilization

Class

Clock

Collaboration

Color

Combination

Concentration

Consciousness

Cooking

Corruption

Courage

Crazy

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Quotes by Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

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

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

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

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

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