State Machines

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or machines:

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)