Goods Quotes · Page 10

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you…

— Barack Obama

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

— Vincent de Paul

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

— Thorstein Veblen

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

— Ludwig von Mises

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

— Simonides of Ceos

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

— Ariana Franklin

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified…

— Henry Giroux

You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call…

— Saint Basil

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years…

— Camille Paglia

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the…

— Jim Kaat

Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down,…

— Martin Schulz

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to…

— Dana Rohrabacher

I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that…

— Judith Butler

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only…

— Pope Pius XI

The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what…

— Virginia Postrel

T pleaseth me when I see through the meadows The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I When I…

— Bertran de Born

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and…

— Eve Ensler

Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance…

— Michael Hudson

But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to…

— Edward Jenks

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent…

— Helen Keller

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go…

— Ron Paul

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry…

— Henry Hazlitt

What [Donald] has put up for question is this idea of tariffs. Initially, he said if China won't stop taking advantage of…

— Maria Bartiromo

If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its…

— Alan Thein Durning

We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention…

— Erich Segal

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.…

— Leon Trotsky

Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is…

— Thomas Aquinas

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

— Napoleon Hill

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

— Bernard Arnault

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

— Paul Newman

I'm attracted to the things that people throw away - the shadow goods, in Jungian terms.

— Jim Drain

“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

— Sima Qian

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

— Anthony Trollope

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

— Amos Bronson Alcott