Commerce Quotes
473 quotes by 360 authors
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Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
— Herbert Hoover
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion…
— John Derbyshire
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think…
— Edward Albee
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
— Gregory Bateson
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World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of…
— Denis Healey
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Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love…
— Christopher Wren
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Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most…
— James Monroe
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But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that…
— David Hume
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I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over…
— Ridley Scott
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same…
— Lorrie Moore
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when…
— William Carey
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When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate…
— Steven Pressfield
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In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in…
— Andrew Jackson
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New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.
— Samuel J. Tilden
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The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as…
— Henry Charles Carey
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It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
— Henry Charles Carey
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N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.
— Caryl Parker Haskins
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