Patent/economics/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words patent, economics and/or criticism:

“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)