I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of…

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone…

— Scott Westerfeld

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or…

— Charles Dickens

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

— Tadao Ando

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

— Andrew Marr

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who…

— Matt Bellamy

What I want is peaceful industrialisation.

— Naveen Patnaik

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and…

— Priti Patel

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed…

— Chuka Umunna

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

“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

“sleeping ‘through the night’, even for adults, is a particularly modern concept linked with industrialisation.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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…

— Paul Lafargue

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

— Ian Ayris

Industrialisation only can generate large-scale employment.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

“How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?”

— K.J. Bishop