Goods Quotes

620 Goods quotes by 503 unique authors

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods… — William James
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. — Alexander Pope
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches… — Germaine Greer
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing. — John Steinbeck
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century… — Lillian Hellman
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and… — Jeremy Rifkin
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. — Richard M. Nixon
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no… — Edward Coke
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want,… — Daniel Pennac
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and… — Carroll Quigley
My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something… — Fred Seibert
The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods. — Frederick Lenz
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first… — Thomas Sowell
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement… — Rebecca Solnit
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the… — Eamon de Valera
In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which… — Zach Wamp
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for… — Daniel Yergin
Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self… — Frederick Lenz
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as… — Charles C. Mann
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them… — Alfred Marshall

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