L Mumford Quotes

#1. Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Lewis Mumford

#2. The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

Lewis Mumford

#3. If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

Mumford & Sons

#4. I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

Marcus Mumford

#5. You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.

Grimes

#6. The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.

Ethel Mumford

#7. The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

Lewis Mumford

#8. 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.

Lewis Mumford

#9. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

Lewis Mumford

#10. 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

Lewis Mumford

#11. You must know life to see decay.

Mumford And Sons

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

Lewis Mumford

#13. I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Marcus Mumford

#14. Love will not betray you, dismay you or enslave you- it will set you free

Mumford & Sons

#15. So when your hopes on fire,
But you know your desire,
Don't hold a glass over the flame,
Don't let your heart grow cold,
I will call you by name,
I will share your road.

Mumford & Sons

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

Lewis Mumford

#17. A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Lewis Mumford

#18. Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

Ethel Mumford

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Marcus Mumford

#22. Monkey mind is actually a Buddhist term that refers to a mind that is restless, agitated, confused, or that is hard to control.

George Mumford

#23. The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.

Lewis Mumford

#24. 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

#25. Imagination makes cowards of us all.

Ethel Mumford

#26. In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

Lewis Mumford

#27. Economy is the thief of time.

Ethel Mumford

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

Lewis Mumford

#29. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

#30. 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