Goods Quotes - Page 23

• You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.

  Robert Englund

  Dirty, Hands, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What [Donald] has put up for question is this idea of tariffs. Initially, he said if China won't stop taking advantage of us and manipulating their currency, then I will put tariffs in place. That spooked everybody because if you charge China a fee and an extra tariff for anything they bring into the United States, what's going to happen is that companies carrying those goods are going to raise prices. It's going to be expensive for people. People got scared of that, but then he walked that [idea] back. I don't think anybody is expecting heavy tariffs on anything.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Thinking, Cities

  Source: craphound.com

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• The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.

  John Linder

  Quality Goods, People, Support

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• The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Giving, Community, Constitution

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1988). “On the Social Contract”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Men, Giving

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• The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!

  Robin Williams

  People, Wife, Imperfection

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• I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

  Debora Spar

  Thinking, Perfect, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything.

  Douglas Massey

  Expansion, Guarantees, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Looks, May

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• Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mistake, Character, Quality

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

  R. H. Tawney

  Men, Fallen World, Common

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.39, Verso Books

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• Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

  Saint Patrick

  Greed, Deeds, Neighbor

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• Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Government, Two

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• It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Riches, Ruins, Wealth

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• Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Comfort

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, Economics, Purchasing

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.177

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• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  Adam Smith

  Sacrifice, Law, Ideas

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.26

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• Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

  Julian Huxley

  Two, World, Leisure

  "Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week". The New York Times (p. 42), November 17, 1930.

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• Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Law, Political

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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• We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.

  Andrew Robb

  Mean, White, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

  Edward Norton

  Water, Long, Important

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, House, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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