“ The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition. ”
- Ralph David Abernathy- Copy
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“ I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ”
- Andre Norton- Copy
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“ To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ”
- Frances Perkins- Copy
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“ If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture. ”
- Jerome Wiesner- Copy
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“ Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. ”
- Charles Fillmore- Copy
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“ In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ”
- Raoul Vaneigem- Copy
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“ It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death. ”
- Morris Bergman- Copy
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“ The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. ”
- David Sarnoff- Copy
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“ The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat… ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world… ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now… ”
- Linda Grant- Copy
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“ The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control — "indoctrination," we might say — exercised through the mass media. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ We accept and welcome… as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility. ”
- Aurobindo Ghose- Copy
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“ Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ”
- Kenneth Burke- Copy
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“ Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. ”
- Daniel De Leon- Copy
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“ I compare the current era to the industrial revolution. Over a few generations, unevenly but still irresistibly and with great pain, the technological leap from traditional agricultural society brought profound transformations in every aspect of life, not only economic and political but social, cultural and moral. ”
- Flora Lewis- Copy
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“ Canals might indeed linger for a time as feeders… but every one now realized that the railroad was to be the great agency which would give plausibility to the industrial organization of the United States and develop its great territory. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age. ”
- Janet Napolitano- Copy
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“ The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
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