Commodity Quotes

378 quotes by 310 authors

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold. — Grace Llewellyn
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're… — Antoinette Bosco
I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into… — Luisah Teish
We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and… — Martin Murray
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up! — David Baldacci
Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...].… — Sarah Palin
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. — Ludwig von Mises
The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. — Peter DeFazio
If you are not a brand, you are a commodity. — Robert Kiyosaki
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it… — David Ricardo
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes… — Guy Debord
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell
It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted… — Naomi Klein
Commodity, firmness, delight... — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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