“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.” IfsMeanCareValuesLiteratureLostLanguageVirtueProductsKeysMoralityCeaseChemicalsMeaninglessHistoricTransmit Author:Lewis Mumford
“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.” MeanEndsTurnsGoalWealthEconomyFashionIndustryBuiltMachinesProductionsScalesGoodsLeisureDevotedConsumptionReplacedExpansionOutputObsolescence Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.” MeanAcceptingProgressAccepting What Is Book:The highway and the city: essays Source: The highway and the city: essays
“In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.” MeanEnergySpaceProgressMovementDestructionCommandVulgarTime And SpaceLimitlessUsage Book:The Pentagon of Power Source: The Pentagon of Power
“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."” MeanEndsTurnsGoalEconomyExpansion Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” NeedsHumansMeanSpecialTravelCookingLegsRelyFuelFunny TravelFacilityTransportationParkingPedestriansMeans Of Transportation Author:Lewis Mumford
“Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.” MeanArtDifferentPurposeOrderProduceArt IsConsequenceTransformationRelateInternalsWorks Of ArtMeaning Of Art Author:Lewis Mumford
