“The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.” MenFactsEvilConsequenceMachinesMachinery Author:Oscar Wilde
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.” IfsFirstsMatterDreamCareSchoolTogetherEvilStarsBitsWhitePerfectBehindsSunTroubleInfluenceFineFitMoonSpringHumorousMachinesGreenSavedAtomsGearsGloomIndustriousSpatsVatAntimatter Book:The Cyberiad Source: The Cyberiad
“I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.” PeopleThinkingPersonsEnoughEvilMoralIssuesGreaterArgumentMachinesFundamentalsMoral Issues Author:Judy Woodruff
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.” PeopleUseEvilLinesHabitProjectsMachinesPracticalsSavingAshamedLazyHelpfulCanvasVicious Author:Norman Rockwell
“When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” MenNeedsYearsMadeRunningEvilCan DoThousandCreaturesDevilMachinesThousand YearsElbows Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.” WayMindEvilExistenceMachinesSatanImmenseAnguishNuanceOnionsFrenchmenCybernetics Author:Norman Mailer
“When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.” MeanSoulHandsAbleSpiritualEvilTermTeacherMachinesSurrenderCommandAlsCorpsesSpiritual TeachersCogsNafs Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.” WayGivingYearsWould BeEvilGamesAcceptingFoolGiving UpMachinesWeightRefuseBehaveExistentialismDragExistentialAdvise Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” KnowsMenWayWantNeedsYearsMindLooksHeartMadeRunningEvilCausesCan DoThousandCreaturesDevilMachinesBoundsOddsThousand YearsElbowsMeanness Author:Cormac McCarthy
“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” MenPhilosophyInspirationActionChristianSpiritEvilGoalReligiousResultsGenerationsPersonalityDemandDiseaseDirectMachinesMethodDramaticReachingTragicButtonsShallowSymptomsHollowGlamourImpatientReligious PhilosophySalesmanshipGlorificationExternalitiesDynamic Personality Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?” “I got it,” one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. “Cool,” Leo said. “I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.” SaidShowsActionWantedFacesGuyGirlEvilDarkHairArmsHeroBandBeatsGunRedFemaleMachinesDinnerAidsAliensRememberedPantsTanksChinsMachine GunsSmileyDark HairAction HeroesSmiley FaceBand AidTank TopsMowingCamo Author:Rick Riordan