Instrument

Famous quotes containing the word instrument:

“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.”
—James Bryce (1838–1922)