Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Auditioning is important, and I understand that. If there is somebody making a movie, if there is somebody manufacturing a movie, they… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats]… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give… — Daniel Altman Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image