#mechanism

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#giant #mechanism #operated #pygmies

A całą tę sprawę, tak spokojnie i godnie poprowadzoną, minister uznał za sukces, zaś nasza prasa określiła jako zwycięstwo. Tak zawsze jakoś minister kierował, że wszystko na sukces wychodziło i dobrze było, a baliśmy się, że gdyby ministra onego nie stało, wnet by smętkiem powiało, co się potem sprawdziło, kiedy nam go ubyło. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuściński

#political-maneuvering #political-mechanisms #totalitarian-system-mechanisms #totalitarianism

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

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

People use irony as a defense mechanism. ↗

— David Byrne

#defense mechanism #irony #mechanism #people #use

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#been #by the time #children #foods #get

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. ↗

— Linda Vester

#easy #get #hardened #journalist #just

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#any #bird #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. ↗

— David Duke

#cultures #destroy #israel #jews #mechanism

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#give #give me #intellectualism #me #mechanism