Industrial Revolution Quotes
72 Industrial Revolution quotes by 69 unique authors
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
— Iain Banks
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help…
— Martha Beck
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to…
— David Cameron
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We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
— Joseph Sobran
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I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce…
— Alan Titchmarsh
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We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and…
— Tony Blair
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All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
— David Cronenberg
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The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.
— Greg Palast
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The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering…
— Prince Charles
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The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we…
— Walter Wriston
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Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the…
— George W. Bush
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The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
— Steven Levy
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the…
— Joseph J. Romm
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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is…
— Marvin Harris
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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and…
— Tom Robbins
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But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in…
— Erik Brynjolfsson
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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
— Theodore Kaczynski
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality…
— Kate Braverman
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since,…
— Amy Waldman
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I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the…
— Andre Norton
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Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial…
— Thomas Sowell
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Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really.…
— Janine Benyus
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