Modern society Quote by Seth Godin

“The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs'…

— Craig M. Gay

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

“We overestimate the power of people who become cogs in giant organizations. The fact that they become cogs actually limits what they can do.…

— Howard Zinn

Our society has become an employee society.

— Peter Drucker

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked…

— Edith Wharton

“Sadly, in our technological, impersonal, and avaricious consumer society, people merely hold on to jobs. They put in their time, leave at the five…

— Robert Dykstra

“What is sad is the fact that this entire growing industry has been developed around a system of education that is basically obsolete, and…

— Russell L. Ackoff

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The world system enslaves through jobs”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in…

— Buckminster Fuller

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition,…

— John Dewey

“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.”

— Ludwig von Mises