Famous quotes containing the word industrial:
“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted valuesespecially the moral onescoupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)
“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)