I'm going past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls ban ripped apart.

— Ian Ayris

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever-increasing rapidity and exactness, the laborer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardor, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

— Paul Lafargue

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

With an evermore increase of industrialization machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.

— Heide Schönemann