Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers (The Brown Decades)
Lewis Mumford quote 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 quote 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 quote 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 quote War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Lewis Mumford quote Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
Lewis Mumford quote Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford quote New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Lewis Mumford quote Biography
American sociologist
