Economy Quote by William James Download Open image “The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economy Fundamentals Instinct Liberalism Men Nature Ownership Politics Property Rights Wisdom
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Acting like an owner means taking responsibility for learning about your strengths, weaknesses, and passions. It involves communicating your desires to those who can… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that… — Thiruman Archunan Copy Share Image
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union. — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
