Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford

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I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.
~ Lewis Mumford

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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
~ Lewis Mumford

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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford

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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford

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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford

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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe.
~ Lewis Mumford

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