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Lewis Mumford

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Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. He made significant contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural history, and the history of technology.

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Quotes from Lewis Mumford

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

—Lewis Mumford

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

—Lewis Mumford

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility.

—Lewis Mumford

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

—Lewis Mumford

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

—Lewis Mumford