Best Patronage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.”

My Own Liberty Lovers Patronage

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.”

Humans Care Animal Sentimental Sympathetic Patronage

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.”

Thinking Want Looks Names Clubs British Empires Villain Exploitation Conquest Monument Monarchy British Empire Despicable Turned Down Patronage

Author:Ken Loach

“Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.”

Bigs Loses Influence Products Depends Customers Enterprise Big Business Patronage

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”

Design Greatness Architecture Architect Patron Patronage

Author:Edwin Lutyens

“There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.”

Knows Country States President Lines Pieces Information Essentials Tribes Allegiance Patronage

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.”

Men Made Real Hurt Ability Support Five Cold Claims Aids Merit Hostile Appointments New Friends Patronage Five Friends

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .”

America Law Influence Depends Essentials Consequence Constitution Majority Executives Patronage Ascendancy

Book:The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2

Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2

“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”

“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”

Book Achieve Politician Office Benefits Asking Magician Bribe Patronage

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”

Art Life Is Artist Found Grace Office Worthy Muse Refining Patronage

Book:Woman and Her Era

Source: Woman and Her Era

“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'”

Whole Black Race Violence Special Quiet Dignity Womanhood Black Women Patronage Suing Undisputed

Author:Anna Julia Cooper

“It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.”

“Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”

Might School Female Worthy Lists Propriety Patronage

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.”