Mass Production Quotes

• Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

  Erich Fromm

  Equality, Men, History

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

  Bob Graham

  Thinking, Iraq, Numbers

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• There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

  Stephanie Mills

  Opposites, Advertising, Banality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Men, Important, Want

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• Not mass production but production by the masses.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Mass, Productions

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.

  Narendra Modi

  Jobs, India, Needs

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• The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Self, Renewable Resources

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Marketing, Principles, Needs

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• The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Entertainment, Distraction

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

  Alvin Toffler

  Wind, Organization, Mass Destruction

  "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

  Will Rogers

  Mass, Cheaper, Courses

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

  Susan Sontag

  Artist, Hands, Eras

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Hollywood, United States

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  A. O. Scott

  Running, Book, Tears

  "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

  A. N. Wilson

  Class, People, Water

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• Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small élite.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Average, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

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• Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Requirements, Matter, Mass

  "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.

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• This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Age, Technique

  "Manipulating Public Opinion". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 33 (pp. 958-971), May 1928.

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• From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

  Zaha Hadid

  Ideas, Association, Firsts

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• We're at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach.

  Mary Mattingly

  Community, Humanity, Use

  "The Weight of Mary Mattingly’s World". Interview with Noor Brara, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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