No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have… — Bayode Ojo Copy Share Image
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits?… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the… — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong,… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image