Industrial Society Quotes

22 Industrial Society quotes by 19 unique authors

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by… — Albert Hofmann
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… — Edward Abbey
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. — Edward Abbey
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. — Herbert Marcuse
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… — Noam Chomsky
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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not… — Philip Guston
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...… — John Berger
One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology,… — Dalai Lama
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic… — Cyril Connolly
We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound… — Van Jones
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the… — Ayn Rand
Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem. — Edgar Friedenberg
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. — Raoul Vaneigem
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within… — John Berger
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not. — Richard Engel
Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and… — Cindy Crawford
Nobody ever goes, 'I feel great, life's treated me fine.' It's the classic thing of having an industrial society where most people absorb things their… — Richey Edwards

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