Machine Guns Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words machine, guns and/or defeated:

    “But it is found that the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power. There should be a temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”
    —Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)