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  • The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

    "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.
  • In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

    War   Blood   Office  
    "Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections". Book by A. Jean Lesher, p. 111, 2005.
  • A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

    Growing   Late   Critique  
    "Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the ’60s". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.
  • Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

  • Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

    Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
  • Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On the other hand, religion without science is powerless because it lacks an effective means through which to actualize the ultimate reality. Science and religion must work together harmoniously.

    Mean   Loss   Reality  
    Masao Abe (2003). “Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.55, University of Hawaii Press
  • If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

    Fate   Games   Drawing  
  • In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

    Quality   Use   Economics  
  • Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

    Fate   Men   Singing  
  • Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.

    Men   Years   Psychics  
    "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.
  • The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.

    Mean   Artist   Pressure  
  • Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

    Strong   Men   Hands  
    "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
  • I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

    Sad   Believe   Men  
    letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.
  • Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

    Hands   Creative   Mind  
  • The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.

    Address on occasion of opening of State bank of Pakistan, July 1, 1948.
  • Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

    Art   Black   Automation  
    "Poet in New York". Book by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1940.
  • Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

    Taken   Media   Wire  
  • The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.

  • Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

  • Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

    Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
  • Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

  • I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

    God   Atheist   Nature  
    Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.
  • If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

    "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.
  • Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

    FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”
  • Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

    "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.
  • Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.

  • The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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