Industrial Revolution Quotes

72 Industrial Revolution quotes by 69 unique authors

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 without the help… — Martha Beck
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
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
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
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
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
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. — Greg Palast
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
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
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
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy
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
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
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
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
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
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. — Theodore Kaczynski
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality… — Kate Braverman
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
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
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
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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