Commodities Quotes

113 quotes by 88 authors

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from… — Angela Carter
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and… — Carroll Quigley
China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China… — S. R. Nathan
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I… — Neil Strauss
I never looked at people or singing as commodities. — Pat Benatar
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman. — Ana Castillo
What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause… — Theodor Adorno
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then… — Marc Faber
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. — Johanna SigurÃ°ardottir
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely. — Ann Landers
Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's… — Frederick Lenz
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is… — Alain Badiou
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. — Karl Marx
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as… — David Hume
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. — Jonathan Kozol
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. — Christopher Lasch
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. — Herbert Marcuse

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