Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. . . . No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.
Undocumented immigrants produced $1. 58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1. 16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1. 44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Kindness is produced by kindness.
In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.
Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.
When the object that is produced. . . the photographic image. . . has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.