Commodity Quote by Henry Charles Carey

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to…

— Adam Smith

“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or have a…

— Carson McCullers

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

— Ivan Illich

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do…

— Wasif Ali Wasif

The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else.…

— Kerry James Marshall

“There are many things money can buy, but the most valuable of all is freedom. Freedom to do what you want and to work…

— J.L. Collins

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop…

— Herbert Hoover

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is…

— Karl Marx

By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,…

— Cato the Younger

When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal…

— Henry George

“It [bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable…

— Karl Marx

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not…

— David Ricardo