Noun
COGS
Acronym of cost of goods sold.
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. George Orwell
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. Hans Hofmann
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them. Hannah Arendt
My heroes are those people who want to be individuals but are being forced to be cogs again. In an Empire there are only cogs. Anna Politkovskaya
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. Deborah Tannen
We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition. Baron d'Holbach