#machinery

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#machinery #make #people #poor #rich

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#business #gears #humanity #i #i think

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

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

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. ↗

— Mario Batali

#away #far #far away #food #get

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#connected #deep #faith #find #gets

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth. ↗

— Elliott Gould

#conceited #machinery #more #nothing #other

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#machinery #modernism #obscurity #science #beauty

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#any #enough #hard #i #into

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. ↗

— Gregor Strasser

#distributing #distribution #economic #economic system #false