All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I’d never leave my keyboard.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

A gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it’s ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America’s story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as well contrived to their ends as a linotype machine, an antiseptic operating plant, or an electric tram-car, there need now at the present moment be no appreciable toil in the world.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

It is said that the truth will make you free. The truth alone will not. It must be combined with facts and other astute bargaining devices

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining, in perpetuity, the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.