Accumulations Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre…
— Ana Mendieta
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Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
— James Madison
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We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of…
— Manuel De Landa
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Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
— Jeanette Winterson
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The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property…
— Michael Parenti
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The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
— Pat Barker
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As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out…
— Meher Baba
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The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A…
— Jesse Owens
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Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
— Charles Dickens
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Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to…
— Peter L. Berger
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To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that…
— Russell Kirk
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Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to…
— Rose Macaulay
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All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
— William Faulkner
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Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
— Mark Twain
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In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose…
— Mary Roach
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily…
— Leland Stanford
Who Wrote These Accumulations Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Accumulations Quotes as follows: