#object

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#follows #globalization #law #logically #nature

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

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#exercise #men #object #power #protection

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#fence #flowers #i #i see #instance

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#black holes #concepts #construction #elements #holes

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#been #changed #feelings #had #i

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#best #broadly #citizens #country #education

For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon. ↗

— Alain-Fournier

#around #cooperation #exploration #framework #future

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ↗

— Henry Fuseli

#each #essence #exist #idea #individual