Expense Quotes - page 2

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. (Ayn Rand)
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police, not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. View quote
Norman Cousins
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order... View quote
Augustus
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. View quote
James Frazer
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work. View quote
Max Beckmann
The expense of a monument is superfluous; my memory will endure if my actions deserve it. View quote
Pliny the Younger
It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense. View quote
Éamon de Valera
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man... begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. (Quintilian)
The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others. View quote
Daniel Levitin
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. View quote
Eric Idle
I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. View quote
George Washington
Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State. View quote
Lev Artsimovich
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. View quote
Alain-René Lesage
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e. g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money at all. View quote
Murray Rothbard
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics. (William Stanley Jevons)
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me! View quote
David Lodge
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
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