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Lewis Mumford
American Sociologist
Born: Oct 19, 1895
Died: Jan 26, 1990
Art Life Live Nothing People War
Related authors: C. Wright Mills Charles Horton Cooley Deborah Tannen Ivan Illich Matthew Desmond Talcott Parsons Thomas E. Mann William Julius Wilson
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. Lewis Mumford
Life Truth Day Beauty Spent Sight Mystery Perfection Days Contemplation Without Sound Human Human Life Succession Search Fatal
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Lewis Mumford
Art Opportunity Denial Machine Limit Handicraft Curb
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. Lewis Mumford
Art Culture Creativity Matter Power Energy Living City Dead Chief Form Reproduction Convert Social Function Biological Symbols
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. Lewis Mumford
Death War Destruction Starvation Characterize Misery Part Principal Terror Form Process Product
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. Lewis Mumford
Science Impossible Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Lesson Possibilities At Least One Least Fallen However Modern Short Taught Modern Science Mankind Far Inherent Techniques
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. Lewis Mumford
Food Travel Pedestrian Restore Facilities Rely Parking Human Legs Fuel Means Special Need
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. Lewis Mumford
Life Death Experience Fear Young Nothing Live Has-Been Days Perhaps Without Been Achieved Forgotten Little Length Elderly Shortness Fullness Why
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. Lewis Mumford
People Live Finally Those Cities Dream Which Mansions
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. Lewis Mumford
Life Needs Impossible Nothing Further Out Development Unthinkable Balanced Provided Person Dedicated
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Lewis Mumford
War Army Negative Pure Consumer Merely Producer
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. Lewis Mumford
Today Progress Single Seems Parochial Perhaps Most Limit Without Line Goal Very Century Notion
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. Lewis Mumford
Car Build Cities Motor Motor Car Friends Forget Lovers
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
Vote Survival People Political Desperate Every Baby Unable Find New New Baby Blind Protest Effective Against Register Themselves Act Who Biological Extermination
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. Lewis Mumford
War Society Drama Supreme
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
Life Today Degradation Only Fact Sacred Private Place Toilet Inner Inner Life Symbolized Interruption
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. Lewis Mumford
Religion Action Earth Brotherhood Directive Economic Toward Longer Lord Dictum Human Hollow Fullness Thereof
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. Lewis Mumford
Spiritual Culture Made Long Important Our Machine Run Physical Vast Long Run Environment Perhaps Material Than Contributions Less

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