Quotes About Automatons

#1. To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Ma Jian

#2. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm

#3. Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain.

Erich Fromm

#4. Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!

Rick Riordan

#5. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#6. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Allen West

#7. At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that.

David Blunkett

#8. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#9. The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Norman Thomas

#10. We do not imagine that the "masses" may consist of automatons obeying external stimuli and may move, not under the influence of the will, consciousness, or inclination of individuals, but under the influence of external stimuli coming possibly from very far away.

P.D. Ouspensky

#11. We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.

Barbara Demick

#12. If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Timothy Leary

#14. What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#15. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

#16. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X

#17. I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Jo Brand

#18. Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Evgeny Morozov

#19. Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.

Tim Field

#20. After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk, Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?

Emil M. Cioran

#21. Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#22. We're automatons in a symphony conducted by a lunatic and performed by blind idealists. Damon

Eleni Papanou

#23. Ernst Mayr characterized the Cartesian view of animals as dumb automatons.2

Frans De Waal

#24. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Gary Hamel

#26. I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

Richard Jefferies

#27. The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

Vernor Vinge

#28. It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

Gregory A. Boyd

#29. Mmm, not sure I'd call Paige. Remember what you tried to do when you were possessed?" "That was not me. And don't remind me. I'm still creeped out.

Kelley Armstrong

#30. Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

Gaddis Smith

#31. An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What type of person would I be if I left my savior behind. I'm not leaving you behind.

Katie McGarry

#32. I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

James Welch

#33. The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown.

Neal Stephenson

#34. I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

Willie Aames