factories quotes

Are my poems spoken in the factories and fields, In the streets o'the toon? Gin they're no', then I'm failin'to dae What I ocht to ha'dune.

-Grieve
  Second Hymn to Lenin.

We do not need art museums to worship dead works, weneed living factories ofthesoulinthestreets, inthe trams, in the factories, in studios, and in the workers' houses.

-Vladimir Mayakovsky
  Quoted in Futurismo e Futurismi (1986).

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeplyas they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, it may remain a habit! But it won't do any good, if it is not universal.

-J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
  Letter to ChristopherTolkien, 29 Apr.