Age Quote by Emily Greene Balch

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the…

— Aldous Huxley

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

— Greg Palast

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut…

— Kim Jong-un

“The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the product of…

— Rodney Stark

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization…

— Steven Sinofsky

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

— John Boyd Orr

“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Stephen Gardiner

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow