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Industrial Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not…
- Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.
- Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new…
- There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
- The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
- A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs…
- THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by…
- Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
- I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles…
- The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear…
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