Appropriation Quotes - Page 4

• Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Video

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned institutions ought to be the favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty . . . . What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

  James Madison

  Education, Light, Kentucky

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• To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

  Martin Van Buren

  Patriotic, Government, Debt

  Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1829, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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 to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, Science, Research

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• Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

  Michel Foucault

  Educational, Mean, Political

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Archaeology of Knowledge”, p.373, Vintage

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• Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

  Lindsey Graham

  Tunisia, Ranking, Republican

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

  Pat Mitchell

  Cutting

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• We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

  Chris Eyre

  Writing, People, Giving

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• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  Indulge In, Liberty, Libertarian

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  White, People, Focus

  "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.

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• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.

  James Madison

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Important, New Life

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• If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

  John J. Rooney

  Learning, Government, Want

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