Quotes of: Commodities Keyword

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

David Ricardo

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

Susan George

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

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.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Christopher Lasch

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

Jim Rogers

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

Hilly Holbrook: I specifically said, "Drop old *coats* at my house", not *commodes*!

The Help

Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.

Wall Street

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Fred W. Friendly

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

Maria Cantwell

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

Sol LeWitt

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Marcia Angell

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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

C. L. R. James

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

Jeremy Grantham

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

Joseph Hume

As a middle class Indian you have always been taught to buy peace. Like a commodity.

Andy Paula

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Adlai E. Stevenson