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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

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

Cities Country People Perfect
Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Cell Heaven Needs
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.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Baby Mom People
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 MUMFORD

Government Real Thinking
The artist does not illustrate science; … [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Artist Expression Science
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…
LEWIS MUMFORD

Art Life Practice
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.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Creativity Men Order
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Growth Self Transformation
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Funny Humor Inspirational
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Art Machines Opportunity
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

Aggravation Life Sacred
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

Country Men People Safety
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Architecture Prophecy Tomb
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.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Diversity Ideas Justice
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Birth Growth Immortality
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Art Decay Reality

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