The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
Writing is a political instrument.
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
The body is the instrument of the soul.
The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.
I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.