Top 276 Apparatus Quotes & Sayings

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be published." But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.

I don't think that we can say that the entire educational apparatus is a failure. But we can say that the part of the apparatus that is a failure is taking over more and more territory.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.