Abstraction Quote by Bruce Jackson Download Open image “War is an abstraction.” — Bruce Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction War
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
