#machinery

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great

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

— Karl Marx

#greatly #idlers #increased #machinery #number

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ↗

— Karl Marx

#application #competition #division #does #extend

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle. ↗

— Maxwell D. Taylor

#government #here #how #know #machinery

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#photography #time #love

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

#because #capricious #death #death penalty #i

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

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#away #big #buying #credit #dollars

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave