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Lewis Mumford [1895-1990] American

Rank: 101
Sociologist, Historian

Lewis Mumford, KBE was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer.

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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.	Religion	101
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.	Food, Travel	102
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.	Brainy, Great	103
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.	Art, Power	104
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 training.	Art	105
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.	Science	106
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.		107
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.	Beauty, Truth	108
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.	Courage	109
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.	Art	110
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.	Funny	111
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.	Death, Experience, Fear	112
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.		113
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.	Death	114
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.	Science	115
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.	Intelligence	116
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.	Government	117
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.	Car	118
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.		119
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.		120
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.		121
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.		122
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.		123
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.		124
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.		125
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.		126
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.		201
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.		202
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.		203
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.		204

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