Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two…

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium…

— Karl Marx

“What've you got to barter?" I pulled off my father's bag and peered inside. "A flashlight, matches-" "How about a sleeping bag?" he interrupted.…

— Kat Falls

I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their…

— Mark McCormack

Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

— Swami Vivekananda

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

— Len Deighton

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that…

— Oscar Wilde

“In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat…

— Charles Wheelan

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved…

— Hamish Bowles

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

— Janine Benyus

“With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“You barter away so many pieces of yourself in a long term relationship. I'm not sure I remember which are mine or how I…

— Richard Alfieri

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated…

— W. H. Auden

To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

— Khalil Gibran

“I am willing to barter my nudity for your love. That way the IRS can’t tax our transaction.”

— Jarod Kintz