Commerce Quotes - Page 23

• Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, Mean, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

  Neil Postman

  Junk, News, Entertainment

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.159, Penguin

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• The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.

  David Hume

  Sex, Men, Together

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.487

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• The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Business, Optimism, Risk

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• Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, May

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  New York, Independent, Bars

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• N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  War, Use, Silver

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• By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

  Brad Pitt

  Building, Natural, Eco Friendly

  e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, www.pbs.org. 2006.

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• Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Wings, Development

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• A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Law, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.274

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• It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

  Tom Regan

  Hunting, Animal, Practice

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• The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

  Joseph Addison

  Government, Care, Riches

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.202

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• Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Money, Greed, Cost

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Credit, Want

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

  Bart Stupak

  Lakes, Would Be, Locks

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• I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, House, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.90

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• Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

  Dave Heineman

  Harvest Time, Important, Nebraska

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• Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

  Thomas Paine

  Two, Numbers, Individual

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.169, Ravenio Books

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• Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

  John Sterling

  Wind, Mistress, Made

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• There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

  Washington Irving

  Character, World, Natural

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”, p.262

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• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

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• The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Three, Firsts

  Henry Ward Beecher (1971). “American rebellion: report of the speeches of Henry Ward Beecher”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Government, People

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• If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Leader, Gold, Have Faith

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