Machinery Quotes

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.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

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

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

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

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.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.