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"Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize."

Arendt, Hannah · Machinery · 0 fans >>
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"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."

Capek, Karel · Machinery · 0 fans >>
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"For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer."

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"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

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"By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Machinery · 1 fans >>
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"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."

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"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Ibsen, Henrik · Machinery · 0 fans >>
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"If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble."

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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

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