American - Sociologist | October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford
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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.
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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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.
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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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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.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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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.
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