Intrinsic value Quote by Nancy MacLean

“It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could…

— Jim Thompson

“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as…

— Ayn Rand

“It also troubled him when he contemplated how such a partnership must, by its very nature, reduce the individuality of those involved.”

— Christopher Paolini

“But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things…

— Trevanian

“Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a…

— Thomas Hardy

“Whatever the case, he saw now that it was a rare, difficult and improbable thing for two people from worlds apart to find themselves…

— Amitav Ghosh

“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”

— Jane Addams

“It was more than dignity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.”

— Anonymous

“He and I were both dominant beings and to submit to each other was our war of attrition; giving up everything we were to…

— Sarah Michelle Lynch

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das