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 MumfordThe 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 MumfordEvery work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
Lewis MumfordAdding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.
Lewis Mumford