#commerce

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. -pg 133 ↗

— Richard Flanagan

#money #money

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#based #commerce #even #like #religion

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#destroy #directly #fact #however #mankind

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#case #commerce #countries #does #germany

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#articles #available #commerce #components #cost

So you are going to become a part time student and strive to achieve that optimal marriage between the tough and demanding real world and the higher plains of theoretical thought. ↗

— Bryon

#melbourne-university #part-timers #marriage

Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor. ↗

— Fang Chen

#endeavor #philosophical #posters #pursuit #design

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#commerce #depends #diffusion #education #foreign