Contemporary Quote by 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…

— Noam Chomsky

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged…

— John Berger

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

— Greg Palast

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a…

— E. F. Schumacher

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty:…

— Ernest Gellner

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an…

— Jacques Ellul

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

— James Howard Kunstler

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

— Hari Sreenivasan

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

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

— E. F. Schumacher

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

— Harold Innis