“Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival”

—  Lewis Mumford , book The City in History

Source: The City in History (1961), Ch. 18
Context: Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

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American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology,… 1895–1990

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