More - Lewis Mumford Quotes

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

 American Sociologist Beauty

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

 American Sociologist People

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.

Lewis Mumford

 American Sociologist

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

 American Sociologist Culture

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Lewis Mumford

 American Sociologist

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Lewis Mumford

 American Sociologist Courage

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

Lewis Mumford

 Family

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Lewis Mumford

 Industry

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

 American Sociologist Life

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence

Lewis Mumford

 Intelligence