Quote by Lewis Mumford
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physic

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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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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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer

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Sometimes I think and other times I am. – Paul Valéry, Variété: Cantiques spirituels, 1924

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A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

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If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline. – Paul Laforest

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