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Quote by Lewis Mumford
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. - Lew

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. – Lewis Mumford

Other quotes by Lewis Mumford

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

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Baby, Babies
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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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Miscellaneous
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The human races prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams

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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton

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I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. – Lady Bird Johnson

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. – Cyril Connolly

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Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. – Simon Bolivar

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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are. – Betty Buckley

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The fear of death comes from limited awareness. – Deepak Chopra

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