“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsBelieveUsedExistenceDestinyDemocracyAtheismModernMastersAmbitionInstrumentsPositive AtheismLifestyleObjectivesSoleEmperorSaviourFreedom And HappinessModernisation Author:Wei Jingsheng
“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.” KnowsMenCertainModernWorstComputerConcernedManagementMethodInstrumentsSoldierDamnAttributesScrewsScrew Ups Author:Christopher Vokes
“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.” MenShouldAbleFormEducationModernDegreesInstrumentsMusicalAncientEducatedTunesConvenienceMusical InstrumentsEducated Man Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.” WorldMeanWarUseFightingJusticePowerfulLibertyModernDestructionInstrumentsChaosCommandOfficersWarfareNavyModern WorldNavalLiberty And JusticeWaging WarUnleashingUnited States Navy Author:Arleigh Burke
“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.” IfsMenShouldBelieveStillsEarthThreeGivenNationsFateModernMankindEssentialsEternalInstrumentsBlindAffairAncientAtheistJewGloriousEmpiresComparisonQuartersBubblesGlobesJudaismHebrewHands TiedJewish Religion Author:John Adams
“God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.” WorldWellsGodHandsTimeNationsHistoryModernInstrumentsChosenEmpiresRulersTheologianModern WorldRoman EmpireInstruments Of God Author:John Gresham Machen
“Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.” MaySaidBeautifulResultsModernInstrumentsPhysicsAnalysisTreatmentIndispensableTheoremsModern PhysicsFourier Book:Elements of Natural Philosophy Source: Elements of Natural Philosophy
“I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.” ShouldBelieveWholeI BelieveInterestCommunityModernCivilizationInstrumentsI Believe InCorporationsIndispensableModern Civilization Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.” TryingUseFallMistakeStudyModernPureInstrumentsReasoningTelescopesTranscendentalMicroscopesSame Mistakes Author:Samael Aun Weor
“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.” PeopleMenMindHas BeensRunningTodayCitiesModernWeaponsDestructionTownsCamerasInstrumentsPhotographFactoriesFrighteningWarfareRuinedSpyBombingMappingForerunners Author:John Steinbeck
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub
“And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.” PeopleFirstsConsciousnessModernStyleIdentityFirst TimeInstrumentsSouthernExplosionsBanjos Author:Bela Fleck