Lewis Mumford Quotes

Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste.

Lewis Mumford

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

  

  Laura Dern
  • World
  • Say
  • Strange

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Decision
  • Performance

• I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

  

  Zendaya
  • World
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • World

• Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Wish

• People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

  

  David Levithan
  • People
  • Vampire

• I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.

  

  John Grant
  • Good
  • Society
  • Gay

• Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • April

• Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • World
  • Culture
  • Design