Commodity Quotes

378 quotes by 310 authors

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most. — Ward Connerly
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin
Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe. — Max Brooks
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
We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast… — Karl Marx
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
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the… — Karl Marx
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he… — Karl Marx
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 of… — 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
I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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
Truth is life's most precious commodity. — Edwin Louis Cole
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
I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now… — Hugh Jackman
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. — C L R James
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
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any… — Christopher Lasch
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. — Christopher Lasch
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we… — Aldo Leopold

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