49 Luddite Quotes
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Famous Luddite Quotes
I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology. — Travis Fimmel
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. — Walt Mossberg
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — E. T. Bell
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. — Theodore Kaczynski
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. — Karl Marx
The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs. — Michael Saylor
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. — Robert A. Heinlein
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. — Ann Rule
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. — Terry Eagleton
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. — Christian Lous Lange
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. — Kenneth Goldsmith
Short Luddite Quotes
- I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet. — Kirsty Gallacher
- Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! — Jonathan Shapiro
- I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite. — Jonathon Keats
- I guess I'm a Luddite. — Michael Eric Dyson
- I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite. — Graham McTavish
- I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite. — Jenny Eclair
- I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. — Elton John
- Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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More Luddite Quotes
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects. — Neil Postman
I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV! — Sherman Alexie
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit. — Rick Astley
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels. — Studs Terkel
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure. — Zadie Smith
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision. — Anne Waldman
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something. — Rufus Wainwright
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young. — E. O. Wilson
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives. — Ingrid Newkirk
I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. — Emilio Estevez
If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize. — Tricia Rhodes
If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology. — Sherry Turkle
I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge. — Ben Schnetzer
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre". — Constant Lambert
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. — Elton John
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. — Rufus Wainwright
To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble. — Mark Feuerstein
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly. — James A. Michener
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