Machinery Quotes - Page 18

• For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
  By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Whole

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• A Clock stopped--
  Not the Mantel's--
  Geneva's farthest skill
  Can't put the puppet bowing--
  That just now dangled still

  Emily Dickinson

  Skills, Puppets, Clock

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Perception, Language

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

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• Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Thinking, Force

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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

  George Jean Nathan

  Skins, Hollywood, Dollars

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• Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Technology, Tools, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Philosophy, Feel Better

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Emile Capouya

  Government, Law, Public Opinion

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• 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.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Battle, Warfare

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Fire

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Museums, Association, Spinning

  1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

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

  Emma Goldman

  Government, People, States

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cheer, Oil, Good Cheer

  Orison Swett Marden (1910). “Getting on”

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• While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

  James H. Cone

  Technological Development, Environmental, Bears

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• A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

  Mason Cooley

  Light, Comfort, Machines

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• I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

  Margaret Drabble

  Garden, Banking, Alive

  The Guardian, January 2, 1993.

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• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Class, Community

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.5

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• The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

  Richard McKenna

  Machines, Way, Taking Things For Granted

  Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

  Michael Fassbender

  Boys, Years, Doe

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• Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Real, Engineering

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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