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“Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.”

Men Earth Lord Source Machines Mathematics Slave Intellect Wicked

Book:the Man Without Qualities

Source: the Man Without Qualities

“The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.”

May Feelings Economic Machines Slave Precise

Author:Norbert Wiener

“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.”

Feels I Can Like You Machines Slave Be A Slave

Author:Kanye West

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

“If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.”

“‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.”

“If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.”

Ifs World Heaven Machines India Slave Save The World

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.”

Thinking World Reason Strong Audience Stupid Resources Fairs Machines Infinite Slave Giants Controlled Steel Obedient

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.”

Men Needs Use Animal Fit Training Machines Slave Free Man Cogs Liberal Education Vocational Training

Author:John Dewey

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.”

Desire Awareness Photography Machines Cameras Slave Conquer

Author:Todd Walker

“We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)”

World Depends Survival Resources Machines Slave Rate Manage Managers Employee Dependent Empires Specialists Devouring Abbey Crackpots

Author:Edward Abbey

“. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.”

Source: War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness

“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.”

Ifs Men Science Used Hours Loses Labor Machines Slave Excellent Calculations Unworthy

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

World Humans Facts Depends Civilization Machines Slavery Slave Insecure Demoralizing

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.”