Quotes on Use

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

I always felt the true test of a man's character is how he treats people he can't use.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.