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Quotes About Industrial

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.
~ Henry Mancini
Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?
~ Thornton Wilder
The dog… commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute.
~ Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Dont you just love the taste of ozone? Like a fucking zinc milkshake.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Esa es la única forma de solucionar el problema industrial: enseñar a la gente a que sepa vivir y viva en la belleza sin necesidad de comprar.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is no such thing as liberty,' she heard the quiet, deep, dangerous voice of Don Ramón repeating. 'There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~ D.H. Lawrence
There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~ D.H. Lawrence
We've got this great industrial population, and they've got to be fed, so the damn show has to be kept going somehow.
~ D.H. Lawrence
If the Reconstruction of the southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from aristocracy to industrial democracy, had been conceived as a major national program of America, whose accomplishment at any price was well worth the effort, we should be living in a different world.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
We have here a wonderful industrial machine, but a machine quickly rather than carefully built, formed of forcing rather than of growth, involving sinful and unnecessary expense. Better smaller production and more equitable distribution; better fewer miles of railway and more honor, truth, and liberty; better fewer millionaires and more contentment
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade.
~ Walter Isaacson
Shoddy construction and inadvertent errors, intimidation and actual deception—these are part and parcel of industrial life. No industry is without these problems, just as no valve can be made failure-proof. Normally, the consequences are not catastrophic. They may be, however, if you build systems with catastrophic potential.
~ Charles Perrow
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
~ Charles Vest
So the two champions of free trade, Britain and the US, were not only only not free trade economies, but had been the two most protectionist economies among rich countries-that is, until they each in succession became the world's dominant industrial power.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
It was only after the Second World War that the US – with its industrial supremacy now unchallenged – liberalized its trade and started championing the cause of free trade.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
So the two champions of free trade, Britain and the US, were not only not free trade economies, but have been the two most protectionist economies among rich countries, i.e. until they each in succession became the world's dominant industrial power.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Thank you for warming the industrial gray of my concrete foundation and turning my bones from cement blocks to rich mahogany wood.
~ Halsey
The facet most primed for conflict is liberalism. Most industrial cultures now govern themselves with laws and elected lawmakers. This pits two extremes against each other: Liberal personalities that see every human as equal clash with low-liberalism people, who have greater faith in laws than in people.
~ Hannah Holmes
We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual, that it is rusty and out of date. We have no Christian vocabulary to match the complexities of contemporary political, social, and industrial life. We have long ceased to bring Christian judgement to bear upon the secular public world.
~ Harry Blamires
Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks,A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene.
~ Hart Crane
People searching for a new relationship with nature and a set of spiritual values to counter the individualism, political economy and environmental impact of modern industrial society latched on to the image of the Ecological Indian.
~ Leigh Phillips
Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.
~ Jane Addams