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Quotes About Industrialized

Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
Instead of saying, 'I feel terrible. I feel guilty,' maybe [women] can take these results and advocate for [national] family-leave policies that create more options for mothers of babies," said researcher Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, the lead author of the 2002 day-care study, as she expressed her frustration with all the hand-wringing and guilt expressed in the study's wake by working mothers. "Every other industrialized nation has done it. Why can't we?
~ Judith Warner
Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America's sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.
~ Bill Bradley
Like William Morris, he believed that paradise was behind us, in the old ways of life, and in the organic world, rather than ahead of us in an urbanized and industrialized future.
~ Rebecca Solnit
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
~ Atul Gawande
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
~ Cliff Stearns
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?
~ Maurice Strong
In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
~ Barton Gellman
Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.
~ Petro Poroshenko
Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
~ Angela Merkel
Most humans who have been reared with the creature comforts of the spiritually vacuous industrialized Western world will cease their search [for Truth] at the first signs of physical, psychic, or mundane resistance; or as soon as they encounter the difficulties of dissolving deeply entrenched self-delusions. Look at the world around you, and tell me that it appears to be filled with people genuinely in search of Truth!
~ Zeena Schreck
Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.
~ Jennifer Block
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
~ Dan Quayle
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.
~ Derrick Jensen
If WHO statistics were to be believed, the U.S. had the worst maternal mortality in the industrialized world.
~ Diane Johnson
Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
~ Frances Beinecke
We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.
~ Elizabeth May
In modern industrialized countries, networks grew to a complexity that has proved bewildering to the Paleolithic mind we inherited. Our instincts still desire the tiny, united band-networks that prevailed during the hundreds of millennia preceding the dawn of history. Our instincts remain unprepared for civilization.
~ Edward O. Wilson
We are the richest nation on earth, yet our incarceration, drug addiction, and child poverty rates are among the highest in the industrialized world.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.
~ Chrystia Freeland
Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.
~ Jens Martin Skibsted
The punishing conditions helped birth the protest and reform groups' remarkable solidarity. But those conditions were not experienced by—or even visible to—other classes. And the nation's leadership did everything it could to thwart egalitarian tendencies. Between 1914 and 1945, however, the industrialized world and much of its periphery suffered a series of disasters that were absolutely generalized.
~ Sarah Chayes
En las naciones industrializadas, la tasa actual de muerte materna durante el parto es de 9 mujeres por cada 100.000 partos. Hace solo cien años, la tasa era más de cincuenta veces más alta.
~ Steven D. Levitt
As Europe became more urban, cosmopolitan, commercial, industrialized, and secular, it got safer and safer.
~ Steven Pinker