A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.
With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why?. . . The costume costs $150,000.
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.
There is nothing costs less than civility.
Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.
Disunity costs votes.
College costs are out of control.
These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.
I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.
I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8. 4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).
We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person. . . and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.
Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.