Commodity Quotes

• What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Believe
  • Commodity
  • Insidious

• Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

  

  William Osler
  • Faith
  • Should
  • Commodity

• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  

  Michael Patrick Jann
  • Feelings
  • Directors
  • Cameras

• I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
  • Commodity
  • Shifted

• Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Commodity
  • Bigotry

• One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Important
  • Taken
  • Enjoyment

• Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Commodity
  • Competence

• Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Commodity

• People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Commodity

• When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Price
  • Sell
  • Resource

• Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

  

  Michelle Shocked
  • Music
  • Resources
  • Commodity

• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

  

  Daniel Pinchbeck
  • Culture
  • Comfort
  • Entertainment

• 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
  • Reason
  • Morality
  • Arguing

• It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Long
  • Care
  • Animal

• 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
  • Energy
  • Stuck

• A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Labor
  • Demand
  • Determined

• You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

  

  Henry Hopper
  • Commodity

• Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

  

  Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Freedom
  • Threat
  • Commodity

• 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.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Time
  • Prayer
  • Gold

• To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Reason

• 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.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Country
  • Gold
  • Values

• If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Understood
  • Accounts
  • Commodity

• What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Honesty
  • Commodity

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Marketing
  • Commodity
  • Efficiency

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