Machinery Quotes

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

Machinery makes men like itself.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.