Accepting Quote by Wendell Berry

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land…

— Chellis Glendinning

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

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge…

— Marshall McLuhan

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 great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

— Byron Katie

“Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.”

— Tony Dovale - ReThink Your Success Mindset tonydovalespeaks.com

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of…

— Simone Weil

“The industrial economy put a premium on the repetitive delivery of process-driven factory work. This is what delivered quality products, consistently. The knowledge economy…

— Gyan Nagpal

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

— Samuel Johnson

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland