Materially Quotes
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It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
David Ricardo— 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.
Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.
leonid brezhnev— As quoted in Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976), p. 268
Avant-garde art has become habitual, a dead letter with little spiritual consequence, however materially refined.
— "Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art", Blackbird (2003)
Throughout time painting has alternately been put to the service of the Church, the State, arms, individual patronage, scientific phenomena, anecdote and decoration … all the marvelous works that have been painted, whatever the sources of inspiration, still live for us because of absolute qualities they possess in common. The creative force and the expressiveness of painting reside materially in the colour and texture of pigments, in the possibilities of form invention and organisation, and in the flat plane on which these elements are brought into play.
man ray— As quoted in "American Modernists in Painting take the Public into their Confidence" in Current Opinion Vol LX, No. 5 (May 1916), p. 351
The rule of our policy is that nothing should be done by the state which can be better or as well done by voluntary effort; and I am not aware that, either in its moral or even its literary aspects, the work of the state for education has as yet proved its superiority to the work of the religious bodies or of philanthropic individuals . Even the economical considerations of materially augmented cost do not appear to be wholly trivial.
william ewart gladstone— Liberal Manifesto (September 1885)
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.
george f. kennan— As quoted in Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) by Anders Stephanson, p. 160
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
— “The Road Away from Revolution”, Atlantic Monthly 132:146 (August 1923). Reprinted in PWW 68:395.
In its long history Delhi has been on several occasions the victim of military occupation accompanied by pillage and rapine, and these occasions have sometimes altered the course of the city’s fortunes, both materially and culturally. One such occasion was its capture by Qutubuddin Aibak on behalf of Sultan Muizud-Din Muhammad-ibn-Sam of Ghur in 1192 or 1193. Others, much later, were Nader Shah’s capture of the city in 1739, followed by its occupation by Ahamd Shah Durrani, the British in 1803, and the destruction which accompanied the uprising of 1857 and its suppression.
— Rakesh Kumar Bhatt, in History and Development of Libraries in India, Mittal Publications, 1 January 1995, P.172
Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.
— As quoted in Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976), p. 268
