Quotes About Demand

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

What was a god who only made demands? Nothing but a tyrant with a different name.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, "I will love this person (because I need something from them)." Or, "I'll love you if you'll love me back. I'll love you, but only if you will be the way I want." This isn't the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Jesus broke the law of tradition when the love of persons demanded it.

Again, I sometimes say to myself, When many millions of men, without heat, without ill will, without personal feelings of any kind, demand of you a few shillings only, without the possibility, such is their constitution, of retracting or altering their present demand, and without the possibility, on your side, of appeal to any other millions, why expose yourself to this overwhelming brute force?

Even the little variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and not of health. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

The more war destroys, the more it impoverishes, the greater is the postwar need. Indubitably. But need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

people collectively cannot buy twice as much goods as before unless twice as much goods are produced

But need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest.

Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.

What a commodity has cost to produce in the past cannot determine its value. That will depend on the present relationship of supply and demand.

Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Up to a certain point it is necessary to produce shoes. But it is also necessary to produce coats, shirts, trousers, homes, plows, shovels, factories, bridges, milk and bread. It would be idiotic to go on piling up mountains of surplus shoes, simply because we could do it, while hundreds of more urgent needs went unfilled.

si el Gobierno fija aranceles a la importación de productos, simplemente estará orientado la economía a producir de manera ineficiente unos bienes y servicios que están disponibles más baratos en el extranjero, perjudicando a gran cantidad de empresarios internos cuya demanda desaparecerá

Por consiguiente, en el mejor de los casos, la consecuencia de fijar un precio máximo a un artículo determinado será provocar su escasez. Esto es precisamente lo contrario de lo que los gobernantes pretendían, pues precisamente los artículos objeto de tasa son los que más desean mantener en abundante oferta.

Acts are demanded, suicidal acts perhaps, but acts fraught with meaning.

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

Yes, college tuition is a problem for many young Americans, but it is a problem exacerbated by government subsidies and an overwhelming demand to get a college degree, despite high dropout rates.

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.