Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble >>

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant >>

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. >>

Quotations about Sports

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained >>

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by >>

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death >>

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Mumford, Lewis