Machinery Quotes

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.