Trade Quotes - Page 13

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• Trade is a social act.

  John Stuart Mill

  Business, Social

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.107, Taylor & Francis

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• A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

  Raj Patel

  Hurt, New York, Oklahoma

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• In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pirate, Promise, Clerks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.82, 谷月社

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• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Attitude, Two, Space

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• The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

  Ezra Stiles

  West Indies, Virginia, South Carolina

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• The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Giving, Support

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• If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

  Samuel Adams

  Land, Why Not, Produce

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Wine, Trade Zone, Joining

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

  Jacques Delors

  Past, Employment, Unions

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• Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.

  Geoff Hamilton

  Cutting, Optimism, Seeds

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• All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  America, Balance, Connections

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• Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith.

  Justus von Liebig

  Successful, Animal, Discovery

  Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.5

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• Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Groups, Different, Fundamentals

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• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  Lane Kirkland

  Hearing, Lips, Harlots

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• Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Evil, Church

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• Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hammers, Caps

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• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Pain, War

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• With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

  Willow Bay

  Kids, Bully, Political

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• There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.

  John Astin

  Character, Roles, Might

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• It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

  Phineas Quimby

  Men, May, Facts

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Mind, May

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.411, Canongate Books

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• For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Sea, Heaven

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels”, p.284, Anthem Press

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