Commoditization Quote by Tom Hayes

“Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique…

— Tom Hayes

“Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.”

— Patrick M. Garry

“Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again,…

— Sean Patrick

“When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.”

— Bryant McGill

“Many people prefer to treat themselves as objects, and they are relieved by an opportunity to deliver themselves into the hands of an authoritarian…

— Herbert Spiegel

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged…

— Clovis E. Semmes

“Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it…

— Christopher Lasch

“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.”

— Murray Krieger

“It’s inescapable – we live in a world where what’s seen as successful, fashionable or beautiful is heavily shaped by a power base with…

— Francesca Martínez