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Goods Quotes by Virginia Postrel
- As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in…
- The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is…
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. — Frederic Bastiat
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler
- A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a… — Ben Bernanke
- If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. — Theodor Adorno
- 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… — Lewis Black
- The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. — John Bruton
- By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan
- He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. — John Bunyan
- Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus