#origin

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#conquest #consequence #established #foreign #institutions

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#chanel #else #fabric #found #german

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#invent #original #thought #which #would

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#disagree #land #occupied #origin #problem

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. ↗

— Marc Newson

#be yourself #because #just #just be #just be yourself

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different. ↗

— PSY

#name #original #park #totally

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

#case #his #inevitably #man #mere