#object

Here was the real scandal of On Our Backs photography: We were women shooting other women — our names, faces, and bodies on the line — and we all brought our sexual agenda to the lens. Each pictorial was a memoir. That is quite the opposite of a fashion shoot at Vogue or Playboy, where the talent is a prop… When we began our magazine, female fashion and portrait models — all of them — were shot the same way kittens and puppies are photographed for holiday calendars: in fetching poses, with no intentions of their own. ↗

— Susie Bright

#objectification #porn #death

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#brain #clearly #common #constructs #created

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#first #happy #means #object #perfect

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. ↗

— Lucan

#chooses #ever #friendship #his #loyal

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#itself #objectivity #passion #real #truth

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#blood #except #fire #force #forging

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#decided #department #doing #had #knew

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#objects #politics #skilled #use

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#had #object #possession #pursuit #retains