Lewis Mumford Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.”

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

“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.”

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

“New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.”