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Letter "L" » Lewis Mumford Quotes
«Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.»
«Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
botch, botched, botches, botching, preliminary, Trials
«Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
facilities, fuel, parking, pedestrian, pedestrians, rely, restore
«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.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplation, poverty-stricken, Sight and Sound, stricken, succession, The Search
«Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Life,
Thinking
| Keywords:
balanced, comes out, dedicated, unthinkable
«By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
civilizations, devices, earlier, fathomed, fathoms, inventing, manufactured, privileged
«Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, desperate, extermination, exterminations, protest
«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.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
democracies, Something Different
«The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Earth,
Humanity
| Keywords:
brotherhood, dictum, directive, directives, fullness, hollow, thereof
«Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, Foster, imperative, novelties, offered, primitive, respect to, taboo, taboos, technological, unconditionally, unquestionable, Western
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