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Lewis Mumford's Profile

Brief about Lewis Mumford: By info that we know Lewis Mumford was born at 1970-01-01. And also Lewis Mumford is American Sociologist.

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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.

Tags: Against, Political, Vote

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Tags: Culture, Less, Spiritual

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.

Tags: Beauty, Life, Truth

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Tags: Flower, Funny, National

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.

Tags: Art, Life, Training

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Tags: Car, Forget, Friends

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

Tags: Against, Great, Help

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

Tags: Courage, May, Needs

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

Tags: Food, Human, Travel

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Tags: Future, Optimists, Past

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

Tags: Impossible, Science, Short

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.

Tags: Impossible, Life, Needs

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Tags: City, Perfect, York

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

Tags: Account, Dangers, Trusting

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Tags: Life, Place, Today

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Tags: Art, Living, Power

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.

Tags: Action, Human, Religion

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Tags: Deed

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

Tags: Against, Friends, Makes

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Tags: Artist, Interests, Science
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