Appropriation Quotes

Appropriation Quote of the day

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Every exploration is an appropriation.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?

the only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust.

Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation.

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.– Gerald Sider.