Aim Quote by Wendell Berry

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

— Greg Palast

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —…

— 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

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

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

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you…

— Seth Godin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

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

— James Howard Kunstler

Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its…

— F. Sionil Jose

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

— Vitalik Buterin