Commodity Quotes
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
"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.
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.
When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.
... 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.
I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.
Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.
When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.
Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.
Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.
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.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.