Machinery Quotes

• It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Succeed, Kinetic Energy

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• One day man will connect his
  apparatus to the very wheel work of
  the universe. The very forces that
  motivate the planets in their orbits
  and cause them to rotate will rotate
  his own machinery.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, One Day, Orbit

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

  Elliott Gould

  Conceited, Arrogant, Youth

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

  Aldrich Ames

  Law, Punishment, Names

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• More than machinery, we need humanity.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Humanity, Needs

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  Karl Marx

  Numbers, Doubt, Idlers

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.405, Courier Corporation

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Producers, Creator

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Technology, Age, Industrialization

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

  Leon Kass

  Disposition

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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

  Karel Capek

  Men, Machines, Enough

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Littles

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Nuts, Gone

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• 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.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Commodity, Consumed

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.26

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Movie, Fighting, Want

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• I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

  Pete Domenici

  Running, Military, Giving

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• I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Expression, Pieces

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• Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

  Arne Jacobsen

  Furniture, Enough, Plastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Want, Killing, Fine

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• 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.

  Andrew Denton

  Hate, People, Individual

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

  George W. Norris

  War, Agreement, Civilized Nations

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Australia, Wealth

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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