Commodity Quote by Toba Beta

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore…

— Adam Smith

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are…

— Thomas Pogge

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into…

— Erich Fromm

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort…

— William Petty

The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you. And…

— Charlie Munger

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything…

— John Berger

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

— Veerappa Moily

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity…

— A. J. Liebling

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

— Max Brooks

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

— Karl Marx

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at…

— Harriet Hosmer