Industrial Revolution Quotes

• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.

  Ronald Reagan

  Technology, World, Revolution

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• We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Jobs, Technology, Creating

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

  Greg Palast

  Skills, People, Purpose

  Greg Palast (2003). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-finance Fraudsters”, Constable & Robinson

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• The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Race, Revolution, Disaster

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Ocean, Impact, Numbers

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• Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Believe, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.4, Routledge

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• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Space

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Revolution, Decline

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

  Alvin Toffler

  Business, Thinking, Textiles

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• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, Race

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• National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Important, Revolution, Boundaries

  Source: wwd.com

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• The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

  John Dewey

  Country, Careers, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.218, 谷月社

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• When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.

  Branko Milanovic

  Technology, Thinking, New Job

  Source: gawker.com

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• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  Irving Babbitt

  Ethical Standards, Revolution, Urban

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Facts, Revolution, Awareness

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  Iain Banks

  Important, Fiction, Revolution

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Reality, Ideas

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• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  Steven Levy

  World, Revolution, Dramatic

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• When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

  Juan Enriquez

  Technology, India, Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

  Ray Anderson

  Pioneers, Earth, Next

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• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Technology, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Kids, Average

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

  Howard Rheingold

  Democracy, Revolution, Population

  The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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• Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

  Janine Benyus

  Habitat, Next, Revolution

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