Industrialism's Quotes

#1. [Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

Bertrand Russell

#2. The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

Wendell Berry

#3. Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age.

Edward Abbey

#4. In short, industrialism is over.

Paul Hawken

#5. I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

Ivan Illich

#7. Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Bill Haley

#8. But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

H.G.Wells

#9. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

Mark Kurlansky

#10. If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

Alvin Toffler

#11. You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Clive Thompson

#13. I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west ... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.

Paul Hawken

#16. So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Anna Godbersen

#17. I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

Adam Ferrara

#18. I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#19. ...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.

George Orwell

#20. [S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit's bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet.

Jerry Herron

#21. Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Dora Russell

#22. Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Harold Innis

#23. The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

Frida Kahlo