Inanimate Objects quotes

Inanimate Objects

33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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George Orwell
George Orwell Writer, Journalist

"Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives."

Russell Baker
Russell Baker Writer

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Inanimate Objects

"Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us."

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