Instruments Quotes

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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… — Leo Tolstoy
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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers
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… — Ludwig von Mises
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-… — Adolf Hitler
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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… — Rose Philippine Duchesne
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources… — Pope John Paul II
Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me. — M. E. Lazarus
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as… — Leo Tolstoy
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to… — Lewis Mumford
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some… — Abraham Lincoln
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington
War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be… — Thomas Jefferson
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but… — Calvin Coolidge

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