Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbQuotes
Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbThere is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbCommerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773