In short, industrialism is over.

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

“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of a certain…

— Jacques Ellul

“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.”

— King Albert I of Belgium

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —…

— Wendell Berry

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

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

— Alvin Toffler