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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.
— Allan Wesler
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
— Oscar Wilde
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.
— Orison Swett Marden
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
— Charles Spurgeon
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
— Herman Wouk
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.
— John Quincy Adams
Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
— Frank Herbert
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
— Nikola Tesla
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.
— Albert Einstein
The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
— Richard McKenna
Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
— Charles Spurgeon
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
— Michael Behe
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
— E. T. Bell
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.
— Manny Pacquiao
I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilization reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.
— James Hilton
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
— John Moody
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
— Isabel Paterson
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
— Samuel R. Delany
Machinery often responds favourably when it senses a penis-equipped human in the vicinity, Jo used to claim, but not this time.
— Stephen King
I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
— Philip Treacy
Capitalism's machinery favored these capitalists as it had never favored anyone else in its history.
— Michael Lewis
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
— Gordon R. Dickson
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
— Karel Capek
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
— E. Stanley Jones
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
— Howard Rheingold
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.
— Emile Capouya
I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
— Stephen Leacock
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
— Peter Dinklage
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.
— Matthew Arnold
I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
— Paul Newman
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
— Emma Goldman
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
— Theodore Parker
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.
— Brian Selznick
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
— Thomas Carlyle
The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But
— G.K. Chesterton
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
— Nikola Tesla
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.
— John Allison
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
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
— Leonard Cohen
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
— James Mark Baldwin
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
— LeVar Burton
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
— Sri Aurobindo
The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
— Andrew Carnegie
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 ...
— Maya Angelou
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
— John Maynard Keynes
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Machinery which is not used is not capital.
— Karl Marx
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
— George Jean Nathan
This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
— Archibald Wavell
We are simply a part of the machinery of the moment.
— Charles Bukowski
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
— Moncure D. Conway
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
Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...
— William Fawcett
Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery.
— George E. Sargent
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.
— Robert E. Murray
The Cosmos is rich beyond measure - in elegant facts, in exquisite interrelationships, in the subtle machinery of awe.
— Carl Sagan
Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
— Philander Chase Johnson
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
— Suzanne Curchod
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
— Robert Benchley
Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.
— Jessy Schram
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
— Dashiell Hammett
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.
— Julie Burchill
My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.
— Joseph Campbell
Machinery makes men like itself.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.
— Shilo Shiv Suleman