Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the…

“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

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

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

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

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