Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Time is a perishable commodity.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Time is the only commodity that matters.

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory.   Remember, time is irreplaceable.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy.  Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.