"Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to……" — Lewis Mumford
"Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life"
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford has 99 quotes on this site.
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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