Industrial Quotes

The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels.

I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.