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Quotes About Commodity

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.
~ Robert Indiana
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The political utopia envisioned by Marx and Engels clearly implied a total separation between commodity and sentiment, interest and love, as a precondition for authentic, fully human relationships.
~ Eva Illouz
That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.
~ Christy Romano
We must destroy the Spectacle itself, the whole apparatus of the commodity society... We must abolish the pseudo-needs and false desires which the system manufactures daily in order to preserve its power.
~ Guy Debord
The fetishism of the commodity — the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things" — attains its ultimate fulfillment in the spectacle, where the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it, yet which at the same time succeed in making themselves regarded as the epitome of reality.
~ Guy Debord
Ma la merce abbondante sta a dire la rottura assoluta di uno sviluppo organico dei bisogni sociali. La sua accumulazione meccanica libera un artificiale illimitato, di fronte al quale il DESIDERIO VIVENTE resta disarmato.
~ Guy Debord
After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time.
~ Hanif Kureishi
If the oil price goes down, Russia will go down. You can track the Ruble, you can track the stock market, just off the price of oil.
~ Bill Browder
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
~ George Soros
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
~ Richard Dooling
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
~ Mark Zandi
The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.
~ Tim Jackson
The health of Americans must no longer be a commodity to be traded, bought, or sold for profit by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. We must promote medical and Medicaid home models to provide comprehensive care for body, mind, and spirit.
~ Deb Haaland
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
~ Peter DeFazio
Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.
~ Max Brooks
only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
~ Max Brooks
Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
~ Max Brooks
The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
~ Max Brooks
fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. That was my mantra. "Fear sells." When
~ Max Brooks
fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
~ Max Brooks
fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe
~ Max Brooks
Miss Kirwin proved Bailey right. He had told me once that all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
~ Maya Angelou