Price Quotes - page 5

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it. (David Ricardo)
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread. View quote
David Ricardo
LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. View quote
David Ricardo
The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science. View quote
David Ricardo
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand. View quote
David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. View quote
David Ricardo
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity. View quote
David Ricardo
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market. View quote
David Ricardo
for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid. View quote
David Ricardo
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. View quote
Hugh Grant
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying. (Robert Jordan)
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Error is the price we pay for progress. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Entropy is the price of structure. View quote
Ilya Prigogine
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid. View quote
Antonin Artaud
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. View quote
Moshe Dayan
It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers... and families... but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it. View quote
Moshe Dayan
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. (Alan Greenspan)
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity. View quote
Alan Greenspan
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. View quote
John le Carré
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential. View quote
Jacque Fresco
I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity. View quote
John Wesley