demand quotes

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.