Commodity Quotes - Page 2

• Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Empathy, Culture

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• The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Mean, Men

  Adam, Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, p.24, Aegitas

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• No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Hate, Airplane, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Commodity Prices, Oil, Marketing

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• Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.

  Phillip Mann

  Ignorance, Humble, Men

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Oil, Degrees

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• Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

  Peter McWilliams

  Acceptance, Law, Discipline

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1993). “We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

  Frank Lowy

  Wisdom, Business, Successful

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Real, Commitment, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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• For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

  Larry Lucchino

  Distance, Cancer, Benches

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• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Voice, Musical

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• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Office, Political

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• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Educational, Race, Loser

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

  Fred Brooks

  Communication, Men, Tasks

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• If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Philosophy, Communication

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Smell, Looks

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Self, Hands

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.128

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• Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go.

  Noeleen Heyzer

  Hurt, Peace, War

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• Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Quality

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.9, Penguin

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