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Industrial Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and…
- Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
- In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
- The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
- Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and…
- We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
- Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and…
- If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the…
More Industrial Quotes
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of… — James Buchan
- From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky
- Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. — Robert Kennedy
- James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin
- Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale
- To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo