An industrial worker would sooner have a »5 note but a countryman must have praise.

-Blythe, Ronald George
  Akenfield, ch.5.

We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is basedöa communications system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed information than any that man has deliberately designed.

-Hayek, Friedrich August von
  New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas,'The Pretence of Knowledge'.

To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.

-Skelton, (Archibald) Noel
  In The Spectator,19 May.

The Industrial Revolution.

-Toynbee, Arnold
^1  Title of Oxford lectures, published posthumously in 1884.The phrase passed into common usage.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

-Weil, Simone
La condition ouvrie'  re,'La rationalisation' (published1951).

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

-Wiener, Norbert
  The Human Use of Human Beings.