... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
For who that noght dar undertake, Be riht he schal no profit take [For who that dare not undertake, By right he… — John Gower Copy Share Image
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as… — Charles Cotton Copy Share Image
I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short,… — Gary B Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
