"Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day."

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Source : Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.301, University of Chicago Press

Lewis Mumford

#Blessing Quotes #Thug Quotes #People Quotes

“The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process”, p.211, Oxford University Press
“My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.”
“Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.”
“Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.”
“Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.”
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”

Source : "Brain Box". Book by Charles Phillips, p. 110, 2006.
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
“I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.”

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