Richard B. Mellon quotes

Richard B. Mellon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You can't mine coal without machine guns.”
-- Richard B. Mellon

#Gun Quotes #Machines Quotes #Anarchy Quotes

“Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.”
“I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.”
“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”
“To fight, we must have oil for our machine.”
“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.”
“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”
“Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.”

Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket
“The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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