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«We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
automatism, docile, factory, feeble, gear, geared, gearing, gears, industrial, in gear, pervasive, productivity
«Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.»
«The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.»
«The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, convert, reproduction, reproductions, social function, symbols
«It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.»
«What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
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blot, derived, remotely, Rorschach, science and religion
«Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed»
«To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity»
«War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.»
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