Market Norms Quotes

#1. introducing market norms into social exchanges, as we have seen, violates the social norms and hurts the relationships. Once this type of mistake has been committed, recovering a social relationship is difficult.

Dan Ariely

#2. chariots that I would design with

Wilbur Smith

#3. I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

George Best

#4. People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Dan Ariely

#5. The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Benedetto Croce

#6. The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

J.I. Packer

#7. I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.

Sara Quin

#8. I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

Cornel West

#9. Not exactly hard, is it?"

"That's what she said," Kate interjected.

Matt shook his head. "And this is where I chose to lay my affections," he muttered, like it was just the latest in a series of bad life choices he'd made.

Lauren James

#10. I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

Christina Aguilera

#12. Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

Michael J. Sandel

#13. Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.

Dan Barker

#14. I wanted to be a sadhu. But what good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A real test of faith would be to go back to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping countries on earth [America] and be a sadhu there.

Daniel Suelo

#15. The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded
just in case
for Jesus may have said something about brothers, but he made no mention of cousins.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#16. Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Booth Tarkington

#17. They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Desiderius Erasmus