Mercantile Quotes

#1. American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

Rick Atkinson

#2. Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

Northrop Frye

#3. Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.

John Steinbeck

#4. Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.

Elisabeth Roudinesco

#5. There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

Amadeo Bordiga

#6. Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Andre Balazs

#7. He was always intending to go to Mexico, but some way never got there. Meanwhile he held on to his modest position in a mercantile house in New Orleans, where an equal familiarity with English, French and Spanish gave him no small value as a clerk and correspondent.

Kate Chopin

#8. They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Lauren Willig

#9. achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling.

Niall Ferguson

#10. If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#11. Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Walter Savage Landor

#14. After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

Stephen Fry

#15. The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Henry Morton Stanley

#16. Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity: ...

Adam Smith

#17. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.

Adam Smith

#18. The mercantile business did not suit me.

John James Audubon

#19. In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Thomas Malthus

#20. What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lord Byron

#21. The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

James Stephens

#22. Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

Fernando Pessoa

#23. My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.

Joseph Gatt

#24. To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings

Radmilla Cody

#25. I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.

Ginuwine

#26. We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex?

Sierra Simone

#27. As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

Derek Leebaert

#28. As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?

Klaus Schwab

#29. There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.

Megan McCafferty

#30. Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Edward Abbey

#31. The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

#32. The waking world isn't outside and separate from our mind. It's brought forth and enacted through our imaginative perception of it.

Evan Thompson

#33. That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can't we?

Jane Goodall

#34. The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

Vincent Cassel

#35. Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Dick Bruna

#36. It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.

Maddy Malhotra