Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."
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Cogs
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Peter Rollins
Philosopher
"I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice"
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine."
Ryan Reynolds
Actor
"I noticed while working on Green Lantern that the actor - albeit forefront in the film, obviously, and the key focus for the audience - is kind of the smallest cog in the machine when you're shooting."
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"I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."
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"Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles."
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"Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine."
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"In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake."
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