Bartering Quotes

• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Men, Animal

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, Government, Political

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Relationship, Running

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

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• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Hands, Toys, Harmony

  "Quran burning on again? Pastor says maybe". Statement to the press, www.nbcnews.com. September 9, 2010.

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  Dada Vaswani

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Love Is

  "How to Overcome Depression and Other Heart-to-Heart Talks". Book by J.P Vaswani, 2011.

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• I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

  Dean Alfange

  Dignity, Trade, Handouts

  Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.

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• Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

  Randolph Bourne

  Art, War, Mean

  "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.

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• Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

  Oswald Chambers

  Word Of God, Conception, Suitable

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.32, Discovery House

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• Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

  Bettina Arndt

  Husband, Home, Wife

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• The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

  Paul Valery

  Mind, World, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 156), 1931.

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• ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Robbing, Trading, Jew

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• I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Pay, Way, Buying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Freedom, Self, Government

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