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.
LEWIS MUMFORDEvery 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.
More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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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.
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man’s cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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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.
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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 the training…
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
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Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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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.
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