Quotation Library
Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
The development of industry leads to the concentration of capital.
The hand of industry is never weary.
Machinery is the great agent of civilization.
The factory system… has multiplied the power of production.
Industrialization is the key to economic development.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The industrial system… transforms the worker into a mere appendage of the machine.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
The spinning wheel represents to me the hope of the masses.
Mass production is the modern system of manufacture.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
The business of America is business.
The industrial progress of a nation depends on the development of its people.
Industry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
The progress of industry must be accompanied by progress in humanity.
The growth of industry leads to the growth of cities.
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Industrialization requires a disciplined and educated workforce.
The nation that builds its industries builds its future.
The economic life of a nation is the life of its industries.
Industrial progress must go hand in hand with social justice.