Goods Quotes

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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these… — Charles Caleb Colton
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you… — James Mattis
We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are… — John Conyers
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not… — William Whately
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one… — Archibald MacLeish
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father… — John Calvin
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was… — Madam C. J. Walker
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike… — Walter E. Williams
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own),… — Paul Newman
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's… — Thomas Aquinas
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of… — Alain de Botton
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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