The most urgent tasks in Britain, once war is over, are, on the one hand, the making of a common attack on the giant evils of Want, Disease,Ignorance and Squalor, and on the other hand, the re-equipping of British industry.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Full Employment in a Free Society.

Captains of Industry.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Past and Present, bk.4, ch.4, title.

The military system is, to a substantial extent, a method whereby the population provides a subsidy to the high technology industry.

-Chomsky, (Avram) Noam
  Interview, Public Broadcasting System, 4 Nov.

I am no longer a footballer. I am an industry.

-Cruyff,Johan
  On being transferred from  Ajax to Barcelona for a record »922,000. Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

If you ever run into an industry that says it needs better people, sell its shares. There are no better people.You have to use ordinary, every-day people and make them capable of doing the work.

-Drucker, Peter Ferdinand
  In the Los  Angeles Times,17 Sep.

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  House of Commons,15 May, referring to the Lonrho tax- avoidance scandal involving 'Tiny' Rowland, owner of Harrods and the London and Rhodesia company.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of the war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

-Heller,Joseph
  Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.1, ch.13.

There is no substitute for talent. Industryand all the virtues are of no avail.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Point Counter Point, ch.13.

It does no harm to repeat, as often as you can,'Without me the literary industry would not exist'.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
  In The Author, spring.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

-Mandeville, Bernard
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

War is the national industry of Prussia.

-Mirabeau, Honore¤   Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de
   Attributed to Mirabeau by Albert Sorel (1842^1906), suggested by Mirabeau's introduction to De la monarchie prussienne sous Fre¤  de¤  ric le Grand.

Life without industry isguilt, and industry without art is brutality.

-Ruskin,John
  Lectures on Art,'The Relation of Art to Morals', lecture 3, section 95.

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
The History ofWoman Suffrage1848^61, vol.1, ch.1, 'Preceding Causes'.

   The instinct of mankind warns it against accepting at their face value spiritual demands that cannot satisfy themselves by practical achievements. The road along which the organized workers, like any other class, must climb to power starts from the provision of a more effective economic service than their masters, as their grip upon industry becomes increasingly vacillating and uncertain, are able to supply.

-Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry)
  TheAcquisitive Society.

From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
  Of Manchester. Journal entry, 2 Jul. Journeys to England and Ireland (translatedby George Lawrence andJPMayer,1958).

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  The Centaur, ch.4.

All are deceptions, substitutes for the hard job of using reason and industry and intuition and compassion to solve even a little bit of the muddle with humaneness and awe for the natural world and the complexity of human beings.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonöA Biography (1995).