Industrial complex may refer to:
- A factory or collection of buildings relating to industrial production
- Military–industrial complex, the term referring to a close and symbiotic relationship between a nation's armed forces, and its private industry.
- Prison–industrial complex, the term meaning interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities who are believed to be more concerned with making more money than actually rehabilitating criminals or reducing crime rates.
- College–industrial complex, the term referring to the theory that colleges and universities are more concerned with making money than education.
- Industrial Complex (album), a 2010 album by Nitzer Ebb
Famous quotes containing the words industrial and/or complex:
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)