It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should… — Susan George Copy Share Image
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds. — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
“The fact is, passion is not a commodity, it is the by-product of doing something that really engages you. Look for what… — Barbara Moses Copy Share Image
I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
“You sound like you're offering more than what you really are. Almost like a sugar baby or something. But we can punch… — Stephanie Kuehn Copy Share Image
The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man… — Samuel Copy Share Image
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money,… — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
