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 vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford

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Beauty
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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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Industry
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I dont have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. – Robert Kennedy

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Society

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Society

Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul. – Shellie R. Warren

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Society

Random Quotes

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

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Imagination

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. – Author Unknown

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Confidence

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devils alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. – Michel de Montaigne

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Nature

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. – Chloe Sevigny

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Money