Machine Impact Quotes

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

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.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.