“Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.” MenMatterWholeHumanityUniverseMachinesSubstance Author:Julien Offray de La Mettrie
“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.” WorldYearsLittlesDoneWholeNaturalWorkDutyMonthsMachinesWhole LifeInevitableDegradeDrudgery Book:The Outline of History Source: The Outline of History
“Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my body. I have to treat my body like a machine. What you put in it is what you'll get out of it.” NeedsWholeBodyCareAdviceMachinesTreatsSeasonsDamon Author:Sebastian Telfair
“Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.” PeopleEnoughWholeAblePowerfulWatchesAudienceHollywoodMachinesCaughtHopefullyCaught UpAlluring Author:Sharlto Copley
“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.” LongArtMatterWholeFormArtistSocialDemocracyArt IsIdealsMachinesCreatorArchitectureWorks Of ArtNurseParticipatingDemocracies Have Author:Joseph Beuys
“I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.” WholeNationsFansBandLateMachinesWhole LifeCanadaGeekCollectingPinball Author:Ed Robertson
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays