Quotes About Industrialisation

#1. I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

David Attenborough

#2. The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

Reid Bryson

#3. The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

Indira Gandhi

#4. Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.

Jamsetji Tata

#6. Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

Andrew Marr

#7. For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Keanu Reeves

#9. Never climb a tree in a long dress," Kate panted, coming up behind me.
"I'll remember that," I said.

Kenneth Oppel

#10. Please," I murmur, surprised by how much it sounds like I'm begging. "Please what?" he murmurs, feigning coyness. "Fuck me." The low growl in his throat proves he liked my crude, blunt answer. The panties slide down my legs, leaving a damp trail from my inner thigh

C.M. Owens

#11. How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?

K.J. Bishop

#12. Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Groucho Marx

#13. The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

Anita Roddick

#14. Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Cliff Stearns

#15. I'm goin past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls bein ripped apart.

Ian Ayris

#16. Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

Leon Uris

#17. It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Mitt Romney

#18. He had always been her baby, her lovely little boy; though she had watched him change and grow with proprietary pride, she had done so with an image of laughing baby superimposed on his maturing face.

Colleen McCullough

#19. Shook and Verble, Managing to Learn.

Michael Balle

#20. When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Darrin Grimwood

#21. In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Paul Lafargue

#22. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

Damian Conway