Goods Quotes - Page 33

• The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

  Anthony Trollope

  Being Thankful, Use, Way

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.2253, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

  Claud Cockburn

  Government, Mind, Advertising Business

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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• [Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Country, Two, Competition

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• Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

  Joseph Goebbels

  Long, Giving, Christ

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• I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Opinion, Moments, Attributes

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.245

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• Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

  David Cameron

  People, Flow, Prison

  "Cameron calls Gaza 'prison camp'". edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2010.

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• We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Disease, Orderliness, Dirt

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• Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Men, Abundance

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• though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Men, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

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• From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Buddhist, Mean, Views

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Compassion, Attachment, People

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, Art, Blood

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• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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• Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Thee, God Provides

  John Dryden, “Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music”

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• Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

  George Herbert

  Enjoy

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.174

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• sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Couple, Mistake

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• The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
  We lose; and only what we lose we have.

  Francis Quarles

  Possession, Loses

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Two, Interesting

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• When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

  John Lyly

  Father, Son, Past

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

  Barbara Holland

  Government, Years, United States

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Names, People

  "The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

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• The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Evil, Progress, Goes On

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• What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!

  Milton Friedman

  People, Dollars

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• All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, People, Progress

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