#goods

Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly. ↗

— Dan Butler

#cost #costs #every #go #goods

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #citizens #directly #goods #immoral

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#after #brings #buy #competitive #dollar

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#ask #away #begs #everyone #give

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#demand #economics #goods #i #i think

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods. ↗

— Curt Flood

#being #goods #human #human being #i

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ↗

— William Feather

#goods #land #liked #our #people