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Part Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with…
- Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
- Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.
- Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our…
- The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and…
- Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about…
- Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconsciousexpression, first in…
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