Quotes About Value

We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free.

Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.

Reputation. It cost something, but it was worth something too.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

labor power itself is the sole commodity—the "unique commodity," as Marx calls it—that is produced outside of the circuit of commodity production

unlike all other commodities under capitalism, the "unique" commodity labor power is singular in the sense that it is not produced capitalistically.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

these women valued one another as kin and understood the transcendent worth of lineage.

Do not give the gold in your pocket to one who doesn't value it.

Beauty's overrated, Sarah.

No society can include us without simultaneously alienating us from it. My belonging in a society always breaks down, which enables me to turn against this society when it takes a direction that I cannot accept. This is why I am free. Freedom is not a value of belonging, of being a member of a free society. Freedom becomes apparent as a value when we experience our nonbelonging, a nonbelonging that is universal because it applies to everyone, even those who most feel like they fit in.

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest

Emek ucuz,ekmek ise pahal?yd?. [?nsan ne ile ya?ar?]

Currency is… a shared delusion in the minds of all men, a necessary delusion if civilised society were not to fall… yet so many lives, so many cities and kingdoms and nations, ultimately depend on hoping that no man ever stops to wonder why he values discs of a shiny yellow metal so highly…"   -

Better to lose your husband than waste your life

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Cuando los diseñadores desarrollaban la Liberty Tree Tavern, Walt Disney les dijo que había un solo concepto básico: "quiero que las personas vayan a un edificio de cinco millones de dólares a comprar hamburguesas de cinco centavos". Desde aquel día, el precio de las hamburguesas ha aumentado considerablemente, pero la premisa de proporcionar un gran valor sigue allí.

Es más importante adquirir clientes que cuenten, en lugar de contar a los clientes que se adquieren.

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.