Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist…

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to…

— Mao Zedong

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided…

— Ludwig von Mises

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we…

— John Grierson

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption,…

— Ivan Illich

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society…

— Hannah Arendt

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Harold Innis

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our…

— Wendell Berry

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they reflect the…

— Ken Robinson

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

[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

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep…

— Dora Russell

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the…

— Paul Hawken