Transactions Quotes

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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions. — Benito Mussolini
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an… — Orison Swett Marden
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to… — Thomas Sowell
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth. — Albert Schweitzer
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious… — Victor Hugo
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they… — Irving Fisher
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything… — Twyla Tharp
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most… — Alexander Hamilton
[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form… — George Washington
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. — Richard Whately
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,… — G. Edward Griffin
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend… — Lord Byron

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