I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Machinery
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.