Logo
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

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

Category:
Baby, Babies
Author
Lewis Mumford
Read Quote

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. – Lewis Mumford

Category:
Privacy
Author
Lewis Mumford
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Machines, Machinery
category

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

Category:
Machines, Machinery

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

Category:
Machines, Machinery

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

Category:
Machines, Machinery

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Machines, Machinery

Random Quotes

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

Category:
Forgiveness

You know, its cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks its heroin, but it wasnt. It was cigarettes. – John Mellencamp

Category:
Smoking

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. – Andy Rooney

Category:
Business

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. – Maurice Strong

Category:
environmental