Quote by Lewis Mumford
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where fe

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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The earth is the Lords fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. – Lewis Mumford

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

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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford

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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. – Dixie Lee Ray

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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

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Dont tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry. They think I am working in a brothel. – Gerhard Kocher

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