Quotes About Equivalent Exchange

#1. If the ways of this world are based on equivalent exchange, as alchemy says, then in order to allow for a new generation to enjoy good fortune, then the price that we must pay is to carry the bodies of the dead across a river of blood.

Hiromu Arakawa

#2. I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.

Franz Oppenheimer

#3. Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

#4. The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Yani Tseng

#5. On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Matthew Arnold

#6. I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!

Bonnie Tyler

#7. Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

Bikram Choudhury

#8. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Mother Teresa

#9. At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. It is to believed because it is absurd.

Tertullian

#11. The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#12. If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

Anita Loos

#13. Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and
then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the
middle ...

Oscar Wilde

#14. Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange.

Milton Friedman

#15. His optimistic dream of the great American adventure was what made his writing alive, his belief in the essential joyousness of following his own emotions and being excited by the promise of life.

Ann Charters

#16. What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

Buster Keaton

#17. Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation ... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.

Geoffrey Batchen