Quotes About Demand

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.

In those years from 1893 to 1896, Congress was thrown into turmoil by the demand for "the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one" when the commercial ratio was about thirty to one.

Seneca writes, "Nature requires from us some sorrow, while more than this is the result of vanity. But never will I demand of you that you should not grieve at all."1

They did retain the prohibition on the African slave trade, not from any opposition to slavery but simply as sound business policy. The South no longer needed it, and introduction of new slaves from abroad served only to act on supply and demand by reducing the value of those already there.

In this way the EIC prefigured by 300 years the response of many modern corporates when faced with the regulating and taxation demands of the nation state: treat us with indulgence, they whisper, or we take our business elsewhere.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them.

If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should satisfy it even if he wrote with his prick while asleep. (Puritans will object to the language in that sentence, and feminists to the organ, and neither will admire or even notice how it was phrased.)

There are many reasons for increased spending on health care, including an aging population, technological change, perverse incentives, supply-induced demand, and fear of malpractice litigation. The broader point is that the basic underlying problem does not entail misbehavior or incompetence but rather stems from the nature of the provision of labor-intensive services.

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