#machinery

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. ↗

— James Mark Baldwin

#machinery #modification #own #provides

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#else #get #hold #invariably #machinery

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#against #between #disputes #each #guarantee

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#constructed #determination #effective #however #machinery

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#already #aspect #based #being #characteristic

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ↗

— Karl Marx

#greatly #idlers #increased #machinery #number