Commodity Quotes - Page 22

• In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

  Winona LaDuke

  Ecosystems, World, May

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.97, The Golden Sufi Center

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• There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, World, Demand

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

  Jim Rogers

  Years, Bulls, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Gold, Belief

  "Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

  Peter Schiff

  Too Much, Printing, Values

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• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  William J. Murray

  Law, Sound, Principles

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• in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

  Angela Davis

  Health, Mean, Venture

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• Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and there are no barriers. Music is no longer a commodity, it’s an environment, or atmospheric element. Consumers have much more choice and you see people indulging in the specificity of their tastes dramatically more. They only bother with music they like.

  Steve Albini

  People, Choices, Labels

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges.

  Lewis Hyde

  Party, Giving, Groups

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage

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• 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.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Two, Essentials

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• Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Quality, Essentials

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

  Maria Mies

  Spiritual, World, Resources

  Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood

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• My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world-seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Thinking, Vision

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.18, Souvenir Press

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• Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

  Robert Indiana

  Love Is, Peril, Dangerous

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

  John Berger

  Oil, Painting, Appearance

  "John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2017.

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• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.

  C.D. Wright

  Art, Moving, Practice

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• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  Omar Bongo

  Struggle, Rights, Rise To Power

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Thieves

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Time is the only commodity that matters.

  Randy Pausch

  Matter, Time Management, Good Judgement

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

  Samuel Gompers

  Commerce, Articles, Labor

  Samuel Gompers (1925). “Organized labor...”

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• Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• sex is a commodity just like anything else.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

  Myles Munroe

  Gifts And Talents, Talent

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• Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Demand, Want

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