Lewis Mumford

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

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.