Activity Quote by John Ralston Saul

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

— Eli Broad

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.

— Miguel McKelvey

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

Commerce is the great civilizer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where…

— Alain de Botton

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

— Calvin Coolidge

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

— Thomas Gray

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is…

— David Hume

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

— Aldous Huxley

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

— William E. Gladstone