Over the course of human history, many items have briefly…

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

— Ben Shapiro

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