Lewis Mumford

Quotes

• “It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.”

• “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”

• “I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.”

• “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.”

• “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.”