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Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The system HAS TO force people to behave in ways that are increasingly remote from the natural pattern of human behavior.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
It’s more fun to watch the entertainment put out by the media than to read a sober essay
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
A new kind of society cannot be designed on paper. That is, you cannot plan out a new form of society in advance, then set it up and expect it to function as it was designed to do.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
Women are encouraged to have careers because their talents are useful to the system and, more importantly, because by having regular jobs women become better integrated into the system and tied directly to it rather than to their families. This helps to weaken family solidarity.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
To many of us, freedom and dignity are more important than a long life or avoidance of physical pain. Besides, we all have to die some time, and it may be better to die fighting for survival, or for a cause, than to live a long but empty and purposeless life.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large organization) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised. It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)