Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call. — Pat Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“the only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.” — julio alexi genao Copy Share Image
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism. — Serge Daney Copy Share Image
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use -… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time man conceived the belief that this universe, with its many worlds swinging through space, was created for him.… — Adeline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures." "That's an oversimplification of the issue." "The… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Would you still want to travel to that country if you could not take a camera with you --- a question of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image