A Quote by John Portman
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
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You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
When technological advancement can go up so exponentially, I do think there's a risk of losing sight of the fact that tech should serve humanity, not the other way around.
When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They can become infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt. Others hearts will be touched by it. And if you can create ripples around you, vibrations, you have served the world, and there is no other way to serve it - you have served the divine, and there is no other way to serve it.
From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.
We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.
?In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.
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