Words matter. These are the best Lewis Mumford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
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.
Don’t take the will for the deed; get the deed.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
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.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
