“Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.” WorldSelfDoneUsedSufferingNationsRaceKnownAmbitionMethodIntentionDefeatSelf ConfidenceMediumsPropagandaOrganizedWarfareGood Intentions Author:Marcus Garvey
“The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.” Has BeensActivityAuthorityMethodInstrumentsMediumsAutonomyExclusiveSurveillanceScholarshipValidityUndisciplinedInvocationGround Rules Author:Theodor Adorno
“Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.” LanguageGreaterMagicTransformationMethodMediumsPhenomenonRitualSymbolicParcel Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.” LittlesI CanHelpingUseArtistPureMethodPaintOilMediumsCanvasFunny Business Author:Edward Hopper
“We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.” FeelsMeanIdeasEarthEnergyPerfectForeverPossibilityMaterialsDevelopmentWasteMethodStoresMediumsRealizationEvolveOperationsEnginesConsumptionObtaining Author:Nikola Tesla
“People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.” PeopleThinkingArtTelevisionHighestMethodNotionEntertainmentMediumsAdvertisingRealmsCigaretteNicotine Author:Bill Maher
“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)” FirstsDreamNightLinesVisionAirRocksArmsHundredMethodWingsEightSurfaceFlyingMediumsFlightLogicalSwimPipeFlewHaltExtendingSars Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.” UseProblemProcessQualityVisionHonestyExpressionPhotographyMethodPhotographerTricksMediumsRealizationLimitationAccomplishedManipulationIntensity Book:Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946 Source: Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946
“Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.” FirstsIdeasDifferentCoursesNovelStageExpressionSpeechDrawsMethodRadioVariousCommunicateLibertarianMediumsMagazinesDistinctionAmendmentsFirst AmendmentMotion Pictures Author:William O. Douglas