Depreciate Quotes

• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

  Dennis Hastert

  Writing, Requirements, Way

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• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  Maimonides

  Law, Perfect, Desire

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

  Norbert Wiener

  War, Ideas, Information

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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• After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

  Maurice Strong

  Running, Mean, Romance

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• One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

  L. Tom Perry

  Weakness, Common, Failing

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• Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Men, Discovery

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• He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

  Conrad Aiken

  Work, Views, Firsts

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• Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

  Harold Bloom

  Dark, Past, Counter Culture

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• There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Scarcity, Credit

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.405

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!

  Faraaz Kazi

  Long, Way, Sides

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• Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

  Ovid

  Envy, Genius

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• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Wall, Humorous, Rain

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• There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Long, Facts

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

  Karl Marx

  Might, Paper, Paradoxical

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734, 1857-1858.

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• Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Hands, Excitement, Individual

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• Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Appreciate, Harsh

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.6

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• To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

  Willis Polk

  Taste, Form, Should

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• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Self, Discipline

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• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, People, Cash

  "Buy American. I Am" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

  Lucy Larcom

  Atoms, Alive, Earth

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

  Alfred Adler

  Attitude, Real, Thumbs Down

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