The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
“I research what electrical utility companies do not want researched.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
