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Machines Quotes - Page 5

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.242, Penguin Books India

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

"Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.280, SUNY Press

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.134, Courier Corporation

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation