Form Quotes - page 18

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! View quote
Philip Roth
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. View quote
Henry Miller
The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it. View quote
E. M. Forster
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form.... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. View quote
Keith Richards
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? (Ian McEwan)
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. View quote
Ian McEwan
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox. View quote
Kenneth Arrow
If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse. View quote
Emil Cioran
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. (Marshall McLuhan)
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. View quote
Charles de Gaulle