37 ordspråk av Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford föddes den 19 oktober 1895 och dog den 26 januar 1990 - US historian
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past

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

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

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.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

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

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.

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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.

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