Lewis Mumford Quotes About Progress
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In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
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