Jon Stewart Quotes

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry.

The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

I just feel this is my planet.

Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Earth: mostly harmless

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

Every exploration is an appropriation.

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.