Famous quotes containing the words important and/or industrial:
“It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 (1857–1929)