Goods Quotes - Page 28

• People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, Shopping, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.370, Cambridge University Press

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• ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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• Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Class, Quality, Aristocracy

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• [The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Order, Economic, Made

  "Innovation by Demand". Book by Andrew McMeekin, p. 131, 2002.

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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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• For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.

  Riane Eisler

  Spiritual, Loss, Expression

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• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

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• The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Together, Pieces, Moments

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.16

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

  John Henry Newman

  Home, Voice, Issues

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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• Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

  Sallust

  Wise, Common, Goodness

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• It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

  Corra May Harris

  Judging, Giving, Charity

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• No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Kindness, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.366

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• it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
  The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
  When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
  
  And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
  their goods;
  And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
  armed men.

  Bertran de Born

  Horse, Men, Knights

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• Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Growth, Economic, Relentless

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• Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Pumps, Investment, Enough

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• You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out
  these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of
  his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be
  shot on the spot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Cards, Bread, Action

  "Meeting of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply Organisations (January 27, 1918)". Krasnaya Letopis No. 1, 1924. Collected Works, Volume 26, p. 501, www.marx2mao.com.

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• There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Pride, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Kind, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

  Eva Mendes

  Awkward, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.

  Gene Roddenberry

  New York, Cities, Water

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• India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Competition, Chinese, India

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

  James A. Garfield

  Spiritual, Son, Men

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