Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism,… — Benjamin Graham
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism. — Emily St. John Mandel
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. — Ella Maillart
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could… — Osamu Dazai
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. — David Duke
The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing, and living. As… — Shakti Gawain
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this… — Benjamin Carson
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it… — John Kendrick Bangs
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. — Thomas Carlyle
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of… — William Ralph Inge
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take… — Douglas Adams
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man… — Thor Heyerdahl
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may… — Ayn Rand
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,… — Aristotle
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than… — Burt Rutan
Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can't function… — Joseph Stiglitz
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level… — John Ralston Saul
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. — Lou Gerstner
If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some… — Dave Barry
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg

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