Heavy Machine

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or machine:

“You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 18:18.

Moses’ father-in-law to Moses.

“The momentary charge at Balaklava, in obedience to a blundering command, proving what a perfect machine the soldier is, has, properly enough, been celebrated by a poet laureate; but the steady, and for the most part successful, charge of this man, for some years, against the legions of Slavery, in obedience to an infinitely higher command, is as much more memorable than that as an intelligent and conscientious man is superior to a machine. Do you think that that will go unsung?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)