What did Lewis Mumford mean by: War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA Copy
+ Order and creativity are complementary. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Chaos, Creativity, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Cities, Memories, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Army, Peace, War, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Don’t take the will for the deed; get the deed. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Advice, Ambitious, Deeds, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Optimism, Pessimist, Possibility, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Dream, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Goal, Perfection, Utopia, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Art, Decay, Reality, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France