"Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Growing Up Quotes #Class Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Pain can be dismissed.”
“What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing”
“The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.”
“Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.”
“It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.”
“The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.”
“There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
“From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.”

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