Goods Quotes - Page 5

• The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Strong, Tests

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

  Chris Hedges

  Iron, Credit, World

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

  Morgan Philpot

  Government, Numbers, Wealth

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• The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

  Emilio Pucci

  Spiritual, Sex, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

  John Calvin

  Fighting, Teeth, Nails

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• Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Desire, Might, Sacred

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• What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Men, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  States, Form, Resources

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• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

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• Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Agency, Government, Order

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• Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

  Pope John Paul II

  Principles, Raw Materials, Creation

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Creating, Corporations

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Cutting, Past

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• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  Miranda Richardson

  Jobs, Stars, Feel Better

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview with James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Powerful, Believe

  Charles Colson (1994). “Faith on the Line”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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• The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.

  Judith Herrin

  Christian, Teaching, Church

  "The Formation of Christendom". Book by Judith Herrin, 1987.

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• The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

  Claudio Monteverdi

  Honor, Mind, World

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• For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

  Thomas Merton

  Pride, Self, Glory

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• Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

  Sophocles

  Stewards, Thrifty

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• Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taxes, Household, Paid

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.113, University of Georgia Press

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• Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Economic, Workers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.40, Routledge

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• One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

  Robert Bork

  Men, Distribution, Larceny

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

  Edward Kennedy

  Rights, Bills, Patient

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