Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
Jim DeMint

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
Phyllis Schlafly

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Bertolt Brecht

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
Gustav Heinemann

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
Joseph Hume

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.
Tim Murphy

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
Helen Garner

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
Michael Harrington

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Michael Pollan

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Trevor Dunn

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
Julie Bishop