#posse

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. ↗

— James Thurber

#artists #become #depth #humor #longer

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#acquired #artist #been #courageous #effort

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#facility #government #great #himself #hope

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#gold #helping #into #paradise #possesses

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#determined #fruitful #ideal #individual #life

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#anything #before #cannot #demonstrable #evident

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #because #certain #certain degree #degree

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#believe #i #i do #in my opinion #internal

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #desire #east #other #other countries