Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

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

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.