Amount Quote by William Stanley Jevons

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by…

— William Stanley Jevons

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and happiness, from…

— Awdhesh Singh

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

The excess of pleasure is pain

— Almeida Garrett

“To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them…

— Alain de Botton

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention…

— John Stuart Mill