No, stones are something more - they are instruments of…

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can…

— Simone Weil

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it…

— Theodore Guerin

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

— John L. Casti

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

— Steve Lacy

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,…

— Earl Nightingale

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

— Nils Frahm

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

— Anatoly Chubais