Quote by Charles Fourier

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed…

— Chuka Umunna

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop…

— Aldous Huxley

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we…

— Branko Milanovic

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of…

— Jacques Maritain

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

— Theodore Kaczynski

“If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still…

— Ben Carson

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George