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Next Page »Adam Smith: Labor Wealth
on Saturday, January 9, 2021Adam Smith Money Quote saying It was work that bought the world, not money or precious metals, but labor that bought the wealth of the world. Adam Smith said:
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased” — Adam Smith
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Buying Books
on Saturday, June 27, 2020Arthur Schopenhauer Money Quote saying that books don’t come with the time it takes to read them but it isn’t likely so we pretend. Arthur Schopenhauer said:
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents” — Arthur Schopenhauer
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Charles Dickens: Purchase Civility
on Monday, February 3, 2020Charles Dickens Money Quote saying that being civil to those without money is rare because they can’t purchase it. Charles Dickens said:
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none” — Charles Dickens
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Thomas Jefferson: Buy American
on Friday, January 3, 2020Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying that he was a very early proponent of ‘Buy American’ with a resolution to avoid foreign purchases. Thomas Jefferson said:
“I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may” — Thomas Jefferson
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Daryl Hannah: Power to Purchase
on Tuesday, December 3, 2019Daryl Hannah Money Quote saying that how we spend our money determines which corporations continue to wield power in the marketplace. Daryl Hannah said:
“Obviously we’re a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase” — Daryl Hannah
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William Lloyd Garrison: Slaveholder Man-Stealer
on Monday, December 10, 2018William Lloyd Garrison Money Quote saying in an essay titled “No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery” that nothing justifies anyone to accept slavery’s existence. William Lloyd Garrison said:
“Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer. By no precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or justifiable. While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest” — William Lloyd Garrison
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Born December 10, 1805 – Died May 23, 1879
Bernie Sanders: Banking, Not Gambling
on Monday, May 2, 2016Bernie Sanders Money Quote saying we need to stop Wall Street from speculating with small depositors money. Bernie Sanders said:
“Banking should be about providing affordable loans to Americans who need to purchase homes and cars, not reckless gambling on Wall Street” — Bernie Sanders
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Banking should be about providing affordable loans to Americans who need to purchase homes and cars, not reckless gambling on Wall Street.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) May 2, 2016
Plautus: Essentials Are Not Purchased
on Saturday, October 25, 2014Plautus Money Quotation saying existence is free of charge and requires no earning or spending – no cost. Plautus said:
“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money” — Plautus
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