Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe -… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views. — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
![“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth… [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a4/thomas-jefferson-43_coercion_what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to_238945.jpg)
![“[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.” quote by Marilyn vos Savant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7a/marilyn-vos-savant-2806_courses_when-asked-if-the-voice-is-an-instrument_2417285.jpg)
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