Quotes with industrial

  • These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
  • The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

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  • Thorstein Veblen The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Thomas Szasz Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Andre Norton I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem 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
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Caitlin Doughty One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Ann Macbeth Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bill Dedman The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Britt Daniel The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • David Sarnoff The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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