"Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them"

-- Bruno Latour

#Social Quotes #Theory Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.”
“I tend to read non-fiction.”
“Bach is the beginning and end of all music.”

Source : Max Reger, Christopher Anderson (2006). “Selected Writings of Max Reger”, p.82, Taylor & Francis
“Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.”
“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”
“It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move in that direction. It is morally right. It is religiously correct. It is economically prudent. It strengthens national defense. And it makes a better world for our children, and our children's children.”
“I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.”
“There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.”

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