Goods Quotes
620 quotes by 518 authors
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which…
— Paul Auster
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
— Frederic Bastiat
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
— Felix Adler
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the…
— Ben Bernanke
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if…
— Lewis Black
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The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
— John Bruton
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
— John Bunyan
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot…
— Albert Camus
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
— Red Cloud
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Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
— Brad Mehldau
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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Goods which are not shared are not goods.
— Fernando de Rojas
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their…
— Aristotle
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,…
— Sissela Bok
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