A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used. — William Feather Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them. — Fred L. Turner Copy Share Image
Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“On the day that the intelligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who… — James Horner Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful. — Lance Burton Copy Share Image
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
