Production Quotes

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

~ Diego Rivera

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.

~ Paul Lafargue

Rivera’s admiration for Stalin was equaled only by his admiration for Henry Ford. By the 1920s and ‘30s, nearly every industrial country in Europe and Latin America, as well as the Soviet Union, had adopted Ford’s engineering and manufacturing methods: his highly efficient assembly line to increase production and reduce the cost of automobiles, so that the working class could at least afford to own a car; his total control over all the manufacturing and production processes by concentrating them all in one place, from the gathering of raw materials to orchestrating the final assembly; and his integration, training, and absolute control of the workforce. Kahn, the architect of Ford’s factories, subsequently constructed hundreds of factories on the model of the Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, which was the epicenter of Ford’s industrial acumen as well as a world-wide symbol of future technology. Such achievements led Rivera to regard Detroit’s industry as the means of transforming the proletariat to take the reins of economic production.

~ Linda Downs

If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who believe in quality produce quality goods.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must be engaged with the process of producing something to expect something.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There’s something different about when a female directs versus a male. The level of maturity, mutual respect, and energy that you get from a female director is so different. I’ve worked with male directors who aren’t good, and no one says anything about it, but then we had one female director who was kind of all over the place and everyone complained. It’s so gendered. I feel safer when working with a female director because I know it’s from a female gaze.

~ Rowan Blanchard

Most economic histories of the world not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.

~ André Gunder Frank

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

~ Wendell Berry

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

~ Nick Harkaway

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

~ Elon Musk

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

~ Joseph Brodsky

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

~ Albert Camus