(463 quotes found)
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations”
Thomas Jefferson
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.”
“I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment”
George Washington
“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
Patrick Henry
“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise”
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”
“The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain”
“E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.”
Grant Fairley