Industrial System Quotes
- The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing… — Dennis Holme Robertson
- Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… — Noam Chomsky
- Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?. — Lucy Parsons
- If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in… — K. Eric Drexler
- Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. — Paul Hawken
- 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but… — John Bates Clark
- 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them. — John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense… — Noam Chomsky