Appropriation Quotes

42 quotes by 36 authors

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I… — Grover Cleveland
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people… — Calvin Coolidge
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion… — Calvin Coolidge
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that… — Charles Horton Cooley
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt… — Bell Hooks
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is the production and exchange of… — Albert J. Nock
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson
I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the… — Franz Oppenheimer
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism. — Serge Daney
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its… — Tucker Viemeister
Private appropriation of the Earthâ€™s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but… — Eugene V. Debs
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton
It has become a clichÃ© to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and… — Lev Manovich
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone,… — Raoul Vaneigem
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all… — Paul Hawken

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