I Quotes
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“Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get
lost in a book.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
“Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.”
“Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.”
“Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.”
“Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.”
“Indulgences should never be hesitant.”
“Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.”
Source: Plays Three
“Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.”
“Indulgent Reader, up till now I have concealed it, but I must confess at last. I have one besetting weakness, a weakness that amounts to a vice. I am ashamed of it. Often I have tried to wean myself of it; often cursed the heredity that imposed it on me. Opium? Morphine? Cocaine? Nothing so fashionable. Absinth? Brandy? Gin? Nothing so normal. Alas! let me whisper it in your ear: I am a Chewing Gum Fiend!”
Source: The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter
“Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.”
“Industria, desarrolladores y compradores parecen ir todos hacia un mismo lugar, sea por voluntad propia o arrastrados por una corriente de cambio demasiado poderosa para poder oponerse con éxito. Tal y como sucede con el cause de las grandes voluntades planetarias, aunque en privado mucha gente denuncie cierto hastío proveniente de tener que estar pensando en cambiar las cosas con tal celeridad, o llegue a la honestidad brutal de admitir enojo ante ello; las empresas que enfilan el timón en esa dirección, siguen siendo las más exitosas y actuales de todas. El flujo de dinero, no se detiene. Así, el modelo se revalida.”
Source: The Ephemeral Age: Keys to understand fast times and scheduled obsolescence
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.”
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.”
“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.”
“Industrial civilization has held us in a subhuman state all our lives, and we now have the opportunity to discover the powers of the universe coursing through us and our environment. Likewise, we have the extraordinary privilege as consciously self-aware humans of intentionally participating with those powers in an intimate, passionate, caring relationship with the universe.”
Source: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive
“Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.”
“Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.”
“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”
“Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.”
“Industrial gas is biologically harmful and is poorly regulated in the workplace.”
“Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.”
Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized that I routinely observed mental and physical effects that match those of a low oxygen environment in staff that I supervised.”
“Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.”
“Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)”
Source: Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
“Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.”
“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then out comes that. But the relationship between cows and chickens on this [Polyface] farm...takes the form of a loop rather than a line, and that makes it hard to know where to start, or how to distinguish between causes and effects, subjects and objects. . .
Joel would say this is precisely the point, and precisely the distinction between a biological and an industrial system. "In an ecological system like this everything's connected to everything else, so you can't change one thing without changing ten other things. . .This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has proper scale.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.”
“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.”
Source: Linear Programming and Extensions
“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”
“Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.”
“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”
Source: On photography
“Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.”
“Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems”
“industrial space for rent near me”
“Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
“Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.”
“Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.”
“Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.”
“Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.”
Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch
“Industrialization came to England but has since left.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.”
“Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Industrialization, pollution, deforestation--basically all human activity--has lessened the amount of magic left in the world.”
Source: Princess for Hire
“Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.”
“Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.”