“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
-Bhagavad Gita“The faith of progress itself - especially the idea of progress as built into the evolutionary scheme of things - is in every way the psychological equivalent of religion.”
-W. Warren Wagar, H.G. Wells and the World State, 1961.
"Cannot you see...that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and the sense of touch; it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops-but not on our lines. The Machine proceeds- but not to our goal. We exist only as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die." -E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops, 1909.
“What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
-Henrik Ibsen
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become captive of a scientific-technological elite."
-Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961.
"Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?"
-John Stuart Mill
"Arbeit Macht Frei."[Work will make you free.]
-Written over the gates at Auschwitz concentration camp
"All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control."
-Anonymous, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
"In the last hundred years or so, 'scientific' views of history have become increasingly popular, for humanity as a statistical whole is thought of as being subject to analysis and prediction. In this thinking, once the motivations of the masses could be measured and tabulated, their response to economic or technological stimuli could be accurately predicted. Appropriate technology and education could then be adapted to engineer and control the desired society. Such theories are popular among both political rightists and leftists, neither of whom realize that they are advocating the same kind of society - a sort of 'scientific totalitarianism' or 'technocratic dictatorship'".
-Richard J Sutcliffe, The Fourth Civilization: Technology, Society, and Ethics
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