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| Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1908-, American Economist |
| The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, AUTOMOBILES and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. | Edith Mendel Stern | |
| To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. | Edward Hoagland | 1932-, American Novelist, Essayist |
| Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. | Elwyn B(rooks) White (1899-1985, | American Author, Editor |
| Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be. | Herbert Marcuse | 1898-1979, German Political Philosopher |
| The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. | Herbert Marcuse | 1898-1979, German Political Philosopher |
| What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. | J. G. Ballard | 1930-, British Author |
| Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. | Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker |
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| Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. | Judith Viorst | 1935-, American Poet, Journalist |
| Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! | Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932, British Writer |
| Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. | Leon Trotsky | 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionary |
| The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and AUTOMOBILES. | Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959, American Author |
| No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile. | Sir William | |
| We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. | Will Rogers | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
