Industrial revolution Quote by Erik Brynjolfsson

“Some people believe labor-saving technological change is bad for the workers because it throws them out of work. This is the Luddite fallacy, one…

— William Easterly

“250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide,…

— Hussain Zaidi

“Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“At this crisis certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufactures of the north, which, greatly reducing the number of hands necessary…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,”

— F. H. Buckley

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

— Steven Crowder

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin

“The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her uniquely inclusive economic institutions. These in turn were built on…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Last summer, in London at least, the hoodie was transformed from a benign piece of leisurewear into a uniform for the disaffected, the angry,…

— Mark Capell

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers".... (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller

“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace,…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy that began…

— Ayn Rand