Goods Quotes

620 Goods quotes by 503 unique authors

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
Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to… — Neale Donald Walsch
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXIII
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it… — Saint Basil
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential… — Mark Epstein
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… — Wendell Berry
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. — Ronald Reagan
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods. — Joseph Goebbels
(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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