These are quotes taken from the game Civilization 4, each represents a technology you research as you progress and guide your civilisation from the Bronze age through into the future. They all hit harder the longer you're in the workforce.
Civil Service – The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
– Unknown
Banking – Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
– Thomas Jefferson
Feudalism – I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns.
– Anglo Saxon oath of Fealty
Corporation – Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
– Ambrose Bierce
Industrialism – There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wage possible.
– Henry Ford