Industrial Revolution Quotes

you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping. — John Lewis-Stempel

Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone. — Alfred Tennyson

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. — Theodore Kaczynski

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

Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. — Blake Crouch

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men. — Charles A. Beard

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

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. — David Simon

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Magee

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg

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

Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt. — S.K. Tremayne

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. — P. J. O'Rourke

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught — Sunday Adelaja

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. — Kelly Lynch

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

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

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution. — Janine Benyus

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. — Vint Cerf

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

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

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

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution. — Narendra Modi

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel

200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals. — Yuval Noah Harari

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

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. — Dennis C. Blair

At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It — Yuval Noah Harari