Commodity Quotes

378 quotes by 310 authors

I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just think 'Oh well,… — Benedict Cumberbatch
People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence.… — Michael Ealy
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my… — River Phoenix
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on… — Daniel Pinchbeck
I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities. — Eloisa James
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at… — Gary Yourofsky
Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, itâ€™s still a commodity and has no… — Seth Klarman
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who… — Gary Yourofsky
Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing… — Aliko Dangote
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary… — Angela Davis
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the… — Angela Davis
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow
Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes… — Ambrose Bierce
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common… — Herbert Marcuse
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this… — Karl Marx
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion… — Karl Marx
The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly… — Karl Marx
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called… — Richard Baxter
Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is… — Noeleen Heyzer

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