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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

Automobile
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Automobile
3

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Jean Baudrillard

Automobile
4

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

E. B. White

Automobile
5

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

Automobile
6

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

J. G. Ballard

Automobile
7

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

Marshall McLuhan

Automobile
8

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Marshall McLuhan

Automobile
9

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Automobile
10

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

Alex Cox

Automobile, Human
11

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

Automobile
12

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

Virginia Woolf

Automobile
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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

Automobile

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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

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.