In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a…

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement…

— Ken Wilber

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

— Hans Rosling

“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil War, the…

— Edward E. Baptist

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

— Madonna Kolbenschlag

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class…

— Leon Trotsky

Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people…

— Toby Jones

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization…

— Jim Gerlach

“The ice had been retreating. Humanity had sprung back swiftly, expanded, fought its small wars, re-industrialized, tripping constantly over reminders of what the species…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases…

— Vandana Shiva

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to…

— Stephanie Coontz

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled…

— Evo Morales

“At the heart of the industrialization process was iron and steel, and Britain was pre-eminent in their production.”

— Thomas Sowell

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

— Thomas Sowell

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry