The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Patronage of Negation I am constantly confronted by other people’s works That I could have created myself. And I am constantly disappointed… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers.… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
