35 Quotes About Industrialization

Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

We spent ages trying to come out of our cradle in Africa only to imprison ourselves in our insane pursuit of productivity.

China’s achievement of First World standards will approximately double the entire world’s human resource use and environmental impact. But it is doubtful whether even the world’s current human resource use and impact can be sustained. Something has to give way.

Industry is not the sign of advancement, equality is.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Industrialization, pollution, deforestation--basically all human activity--has lessened the amount of magic left in the world.