Undue Advantage Quotes

#1. One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

James Madison

#2. To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else's need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence.

Robert Peate

#3. Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. Cross."
His head popped up a few shelves over. "What?"
"Check out the magic crap."
He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt."
Sophie + Archer

Rachel Hawkins

#5. Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

Willis Polk

#7. You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#8. I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

#9. A secretary is not a toy.

Frank Loesser

#10. There is no room for emotion in business.

Kenneth Eade

#11. Don't dwell on the dark side of things, but look for the light and build around it.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#12. I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.

Mary Roach

#13. The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#14. If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.

Sarah Young

#15. In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

Alice Miller