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War is a specific product of civilization.
— Lewis Mumford
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
— Lewis Mumford
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
— Lewis Mumford
If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
— Lewis Mumford
Order and creativity are complementary.
— Lewis Mumford
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
— Lewis Mumford
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
— Lewis Mumford
The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
— Lewis Mumford
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
— Lewis Mumford
Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
— Lewis Mumford
The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
— Lewis Mumford
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.
— Lewis Mumford
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
— Lewis Mumford
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
— Lewis Mumford
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
— Lewis Mumford
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
— Lewis Mumford
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
— Lewis Mumford
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
— Lewis Mumford
Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.
— Lewis Mumford
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
— Lewis Mumford
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
— Lewis Mumford
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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
— Lewis Mumford
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf
— Lewis Mumford
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
— Lewis Mumford
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
— Lewis Mumford
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
— Lewis Mumford
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
— Lewis Mumford
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
— Lewis Mumford
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
— Lewis Mumford
Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.
— Lewis Mumford
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
— Lewis Mumford
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
— Lewis Mumford
In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
— Lewis Mumford
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
— Lewis Mumford
The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.
— Lewis Mumford
