Industrialization Quotes

"It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting to a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people"

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines"

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"

"There are quiet places also in the mind but we build bandstands and factories on them deliberately to bar them out."

"The romantic contrast between modern industry that destroys nature and our forefathers who lived in harmony with nature is groundless"