Commodity Quotes

378 quotes by 310 authors

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. — Elbert Hubbard
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after… — David Harvey
The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy… — Ivan Illich
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up,… — Joel Salatin
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will… — Haile Selassie
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour… — Alfred Marshall
The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the… — Philip Kotler
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that… — Robert Rubin
Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance… — Neil Postman
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities.… — Ralph Raico
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different… — Bret Lott
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these… — John Jay Chapman
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a… — Omar Bongo
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status… — C.D. Wright
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to… — Leah Hager Cohen
I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most… — Virchand Gandhi
Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a… — Lewis Hyde
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from .… — Lewis Hyde

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