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Quotes About Industry

Penn State is a leader in food science.
~ Don Sherwood
I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.
~ Norma McCorvey
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
~ John Robbins
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
~ Jackie Mason
Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
~ Pierre Dukan
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
~ Ralph Nader
My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)
~ Jeremy Camp
It was in Rio that I realized the extent of the dilemma posed by the hallucinatory knowledge of indigenous people. On the one hand, its results are empirically confirmed and used by the pharmaceutical industry; on the other hand, its origin cannot be discussed scientifically because it contradicts the axioms of Western knowledge.
~ Jeremy Narby
Automobiles consumed "20 percent of the steel, 12 percent of the aluminum, 10 percent of the copper, 51 percent of the lead, 95 percent of the nickel, 35 percent of the zinc, and 60 percent of the rubber used in the U.S." by 1933.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.
~ Jerry Brown
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
~ Jerry Costello
This is Hollywood's dirty little secret. It's not about making movies. Are you kidding? Forget that shit about "the Dream Factory." It's about manufacturing frustration.
~ Jerry Stahl
The United States is one of the world's largest producers of manufactured sugar,
~ Jessica Bruder
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.
~ Jessica Lange
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago ' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
~ Jessica Simpson
We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.
~ Jessica Zafra
The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.
~ Jessica Zafra
If human beings are ever to become free and to cease feeding industry by pathological consumption, a radical change in the economic system is necessary: we must put an end to the present situation where a healthy economy is possible only at the price of unhealthy human beings. The task is to construct a healthy economy for healthy people.
~ Erich Fromm
The industrial religion is incompatible with genuine Christianity. It reduces people to servants of the economy and of the machinery that their own hands build.
~ Erich Fromm
government which solves its unemployment problem by building an armament industry has only two possibilities: war or a domestic catastrophe. Therefore war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He cared little about whether they had expertise with airplanes. "They are all captains of industry, and industry is like theology," Beaverbrook said. "If you know the rudiments of one faith you can grasp the meaning of another.
~ Erik Larson
The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly;
~ Erik Larson
It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time—1903—when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry.
~ Erik Larson