If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul. Lewis Mumford More Quotes by Lewis Mumford More Quotes From Lewis Mumford Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life. Lewis Mumford wisdom men civilization Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. Lewis Mumford utopia goal perfection Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life Lewis Mumford economic-value genuine lying 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 mom baby people War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. Lewis Mumford supreme drama war The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf. Lewis Mumford birth-place discovery europe War is a specific product of civilization. Lewis Mumford products war civilization The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans. Lewis Mumford diversity justice ideas The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations. Lewis Mumford artist expression science Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. Lewis Mumford prophecy tombs architecture When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance. Lewis Mumford eye running peace In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Lewis Mumford army war peace War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. Lewis Mumford corruption producers war Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. Lewis Mumford misery war peace By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. Lewis Mumford success men science One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals. Lewis Mumford betrayal errors suicide The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. Lewis Mumford discipline moon men Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell. Lewis Mumford cells heaven needs Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Lewis Mumford decay reality art Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men. Lewis Mumford safety men america
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