"Each one of us, as long as life……" — Lewis Mumford
"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 primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power."
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Lewis Mumford
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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