Quotes on Expense

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

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

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups - especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.