Commodity Quote by Erich Fromm

Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit,…

— Erich Fromm

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

— Erich Fromm

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

— Che Guevara

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

— Frank A. Clark

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

— Max Weber

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

— Swami Vivekananda

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are…

— Honore de Balzac

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds…

— Sherwood Anderson

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly…

— John Smith

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that…

— Alberto Moravia