Goods Quotes - Page 28

• ... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, People, Sake

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

  Martin Feldstein

  Giving, Dollars, Volume

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• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  Eve Ensler

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Eve Ensler on art and activism". "Books and Arts" with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2012.

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Population, Entering, Phases

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• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

  George Meredith

  Prayer, Passion, Soul

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

  Jim Kaat

  Yankees, Survivor, Classroom

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• When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

  John Templeton

  Blessing, Helping Others, People

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• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Flow, Virtue

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

  Edward Coke

  Jewels, Law, Land

  Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Mean, Government

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• Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Character, Power

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Pay

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• You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

  James Mattis

  Military, War, Broken

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• We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

  Kevin Bales

  Slavery, Pay, Clear

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• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

  Joey Skaggs

  Bills, Tribes, Function

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hands, Benefits, Use

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• It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Thinking, Wicked, Care

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

  Irving Kristol

  Two, Issues, Evil

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

  James Keller

  Love, New York, Children

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• It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

  Jim Hightower

  Wisdom, Roosters, Doe

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• I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Giving, Intellectual

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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