Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human…

— Victoria Boutenko

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -…

— Felix Guattari

“We are right to be rational and to try to increase our production and so keep manufacturing costs down. But we are also right…

— Anonymous

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human…

— Erich Fromm

“A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.”

— Saul Bellow

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and…

— Carolyn Baker

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