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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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. – Lewis Mumford

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Driving
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. – Lewis Mumford

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Science
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Society
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Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. – Li Ka Shing

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Society

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. – Anna Deavere Smith

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Society

You shouldnt get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious. – Kathleen Turner

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Society

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money – do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing. – Adam Carolla

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Society

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. – Jonathan Kozol

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