Quotes About Industrialism

#1. 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

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

Edward Abbey

#3. In short, industrialism is over.

Paul Hawken

#4. 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

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

Alvin Toffler

#6. 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

#7. [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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

George Orwell

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

Harold Innis

#14. 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

#15. Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Gary Sinise

#16. 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

#17. The attitude you have right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want?

Stephen C. Lundin

#18. Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Douglas Coupland

#19. The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

Tariq Ali

#20. Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could give hers up for his if it meant she could take away all of the pain he'd had to deal with at such a terribly young age.

Bella Andre

#21. 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

#22. But that's the trouble with a drunk: if he gets excited he drinks too much, if he gets bored he drinks too much, if he has good luck he drinks too much, if he has bad luck he drinks too much, and so on.

Charles Bukowski

#23. Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice.

Veronica Roth

#24. In the beginning, Yullyeo was reborn several times and the stars appearedl; Mago and Mago Castle emerged from Yullyeo

Ilchi Lee

#25. [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

#26. 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