William Stanley Jevons Quotes

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

William Stanley Jevons

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• Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Destination
  • Snail

• Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Time
  • Believe
  • True

• Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Men
  • Song

• There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Soul
  • Firsts
  • Juicy

• What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

  

  Euripides
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Wrong

• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Politics
  • Eternity
  • Equation

• Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • History
  • Kind
  • Historical

• India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Prison
  • Suppression

• A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Hours
  • Tire

• Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wells
  • Twenties

• Faust klagt über die zwei Seelen in seiner Brust; ich beherberge aber eine ganze Menge, die sich zanken. Es geht da zu wie in einer Republik... Das meiste, was sie sagen, teile ich mit. Es sind da aber auch ganze Provinzen, in die ich nie einen andern Menschen werde hineinsehen lassen.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believe
  • Read
  • Consider

• Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Capitalism
  • Labour

• Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Labour
  • Advance