Fetishism Quote by Juliet Schor

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…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He simply believed that the capitalist system forces everyone to put economic interests at the heart of their lives, so that they can no…

— The School of Life

“As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.”

— Ellen Willis

“What we see in stark relief is that the production of goods is about social relationships.”

— Bob Torres

“These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes…

— Karl Marx

“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of…

— Henry Fielding

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

“Life is trade; we trade our labour for its fruit, we trade hours of study for knowledge, we trade pleasure for pleasure or sometimes…

— Ilona Andrews

“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.”

— Edward Abbey