Machine Quotes

1422 quotes by 1133 authors

The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical… — Alessandro Baricco
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us. — John Kenneth Galbraith
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine. — Steven Wright
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Timeâ€”the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,… — Ray Bradbury
The machine conceals the machinations. — Ursula K. Le Guin
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a… — Terry Pratchett
Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked… — Augusten Burroughs
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it... — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages — Elias Canetti
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support… — David Wojnarowicz
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you… — Barry Hannah
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. — Wendell Berry
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine — Demi Lovato
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it… — Robert M. Pirsig
But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost… — Nicholas Sparks

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