For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
LEWIS MUMFORDTo curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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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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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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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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Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
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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.
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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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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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