Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has >>

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparat >>

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy i >>

Quotations about Industry

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder tha >>

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they >>

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefl >>

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.

Mumford, Lewis