Commodity Quotes

378 quotes by 310 authors

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to… — Archie Shepp
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. — Raoul Vaneigem
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy… — Marc Rich
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But… — Michael Patrick Jann
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
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as… — Erich Fromm
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural… — Stephanie Mills
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the… — Ad Reinhardt
To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the… — Robert Holden
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. — Dave Hickey
The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most… — Laura Miller
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, ..… — Dave Heineman
Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Â… Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has… — Joan D. Chittister
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
Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a… — Theodore Roosevelt
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in… — Frederick Lenz
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

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