Material Quotes

2445 quotes by 1849 authors

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force… — Tibor R. Machan
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral,… — Woodrow Wilson
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material. — Ernest Hemingway
You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for… — Shinjo Ito
What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially… — Raymond J. de Souza
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with… — Wassily Kandinsky
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it… — John Dewey
I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends,… — Neil LaBute
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get… — Dara Horn
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their… — Sarah Ferguson
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need… — Mary Todd Lincoln
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals. — Kit Williams
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff… — C. V. Wedgwood
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages,… — Louis Althusser
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. — Rick Baker
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... — Alan Hollinghurst

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