Mechanization Quotes

“When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.”
― Darrin Grimwood, Destroy All Robots

“Even our best endeavors turn against us. A loom that can do the work of eight men should free eight men from servitude. Instead, seven skilled men are put out of work to starve with their families, and one skilled man because the unskilled minder of the mechanical loom. What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

“it offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines.”
― Simon Head

“The essence of things is not rationally knowable, and reality cannot be reduced to mechanistic frameworks. When realizing this, we can finally start to look for the essence of life where it truly can be found: in that which always escapes rationalization and mechanization, in that which dissapears from a conversation when you digitalize it, in the difference between the mother's womb and an artificial plastic womb, in the difference between the heat of an electric heater and that of a wood-burning stove, and so on.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism