Cogs Quotes

49 quotes by 47 authors

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog… — John Jay Chapman
Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual.… — Rajneesh
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So… — Knute Rockne
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel. — Janet Holmes a Court
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle
Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog… — Keigo Higashino
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice — Peter Rollins
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones.… — William H. Whyte
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt. — Trevor Baylis
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
A company is people â€¦ employees want to knowâ€¦ am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need… — Richard Branson
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. — Douglas Coupland
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value… — Georg Simmel
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity… — Seth Godin
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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