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

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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power
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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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Other Quotes from
Society
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Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. – Rudolf Arnheim

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Society

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Society

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. – Abbe Pierre

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Society

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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. – Neil Simon

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Self-Discovery

When people hold you in high esteem, its very delicate relationship. When they meet you theyre putting all their chips up. Its make or break. – Henry Rollins

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relationship

Memories are stitched with love. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Ive gotten crankier in my old age. – Shirley MacLaine

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Age