"It seems absurd, grandiose, to suppose that this is a mere cog in some vast machine."

But here, the art reminds us we are more than mere cogs in a machine; the architecture is light but reassuring, solid and logical.

"Communism and socialism," she said, "treat human beings like mere cogs in a machine."

Technology, he argues, has only made matters worse, "permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine."

We regard them as our motive power, not as mere cogs in a machine.

He had been a mere cog, a toy of the gods who had known the outcome of the war game called 'Paris' long before it was played.

And he could conclude only that there were no warm human men at the other end, only mere cogs, well oiled and running beautifully in the machine.

I am but a humble engineer, a mere cog in the mighty wheel of Starfleet.

An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who made everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled.

I never wanted to be a mere cog in the corporate wheel.