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“how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.”

Soul Suffering Causes Poor Machines Release Wretched

Book:The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.”

Men Way Kind Seems Poor Machines British Museums Inferiority Infirmity Unreliable British Museum

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.”

People Ifs Ends Enjoy Wealth Poor Machines Owners Leisure Luxurious

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

Men Mean Government America Political Politics Individual Freedom Poor Democracy Rich Machines Individual Freedom Rich Or Poor Systems Of Government Riches And Poors Organic Architecture

Book:Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Source: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

“We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.”

Used White Poor Machines Developing Heat Eggs Sugar Chaps Expired

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.”

“An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.”

Years Wells Poor Millions Hell Minutes Produce Amount Machines Impressive

Author:Hugo Chavez

“As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.”

World Earth Wealth Space Poor Views Teacher Doctors Machines Opposites Productive Engineers North Pole

Author:Barry Commoner

“No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.”

Men Life Doe Ideas Shows Today Christian Pain Suffering Can Do Poor Christianity Ready Machines Dare Trials Saving Christian Faith Great Power Power Of God Suffering And Pain

Author:Phillips Brooks