Instruments Quotes - Page 36

• The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Ideas, Two

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• The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Hands, Way

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.362, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

  Lisette Model

  Photography, Cameras, Knows

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• The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.

  Humphry Davy

  Nature, Fire, Essence

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.352

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• Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Ignorant, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship

  Alan Dershowitz (2008). “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blood, Merit, Christ

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• Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Arrogance, Want

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.304, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, America, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Practice, Democracy, Age

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.418, Coventry House Publishing

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• Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Kyoto Protocol, Humanity, Acting

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• There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.

  Oliver Lodge

  Mean, Science, Sea

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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• An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Climate, Would Be, Enough

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• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Law, Bird

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Happy Life, Sight

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• The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Voting, Reform

  "The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826".

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• To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Support

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Exercise, Everyday, Doe

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• The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Government, Order, Democracy

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• The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Loss, Office

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Life, Spiritual, Yoga

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• You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Faith, Strong, Powerful

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