History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say.… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
