Expense Quotes

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.