The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war,… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better… I know a lot of people who have a… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning. — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is… — Paco Rabanne Copy Share Image
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
