Goods Quotes - Page 7

• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Glitter, Human Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

  Stefan Heym

  Sacrifice, People, Promise

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• The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Heart, Essence

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• Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life Happiness, Chiefs, Worldly

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

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• [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, Risk, Incentives

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• Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Horse, Purpose, Vines

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

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• Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

  John Chamberlain

  Christian, Mean, Men

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• He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

  Philip Neri

  Wish, Devotion

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.26, St Athanasius Press

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• The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Winning, People

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• Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

  John Stuart Mill

  Doe, Social, Description

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.170

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• Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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• Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

  Randy Alcorn

  Opportunity, Rewards, Incredibles

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.21, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

  John Kasich

  Tired, Thinking, Important

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• "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

  Satish Kumar

  Running, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Example, World

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, People, Momentum

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.

  Benjamin Creme

  Thinking, Oil, Humanity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  George H. Mead

  Self, Disinterest, Not Interested

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• Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

  Joseph Goebbels

  Photography, Views, Play

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Children, Years, Pieces

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• We are all damaged goods in recovery.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Recovery, Damaged Goods

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• Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

  Sheldon Richman

  People, Wealth, Produce

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• Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

  Radley Balko

  Government, Names, Today

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• To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

  Joel Miller

  Government, People, Should

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• It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Shapes, Wealth, Investment

  John Maynard Keynes (1950). “The applied theory of money”

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