Raw Materials Quotes

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.