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Commodity Quotes by Karl Marx
- 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…
- Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
- A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in…
- Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings…
- Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
More Commodity Quotes
- I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the… — Ronald Reagan
- When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates… — Unknown Author
- Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a… — Edward de Bono
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan
- Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips… — Jon Stewart
- Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth". — Peter McWilliams
- I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. — Daniel J. Boorstin