Quotes About Exchange

Stop flirting. With you, every sentence is an offer. "And with you, every sentence is a challenge.

My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone. Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day, the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff.

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable

Okay. Good.' He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

It [bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade.

The use-value of labour-power, or in other words, labour, belongs just as little to its seller, as the use-value of oil after it has been sold belongs to the dealer who has sold it.

It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and feasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

paran?n hareketi, yaln?zca metalar?n dola??m?n?n ifadesi olduÄŸu halde, tersine, metalar?n dola??m? yaln?zca paran?n hareketinin sonucuymuÅŸ gibi görünür.

Por eso el dinero constituye el punto de arranque y el punto final de todo proceso de valorización.

because in the form of wages labour is bought with money, and this is taken as the characteristic feature of a 'money economy'.

The irrationality consists in the fact that labour as the value-forming element cannot itself possess any value, and so a certain quantity of labour cannot have a value that is expressed in its price, in its equivalence with a certain definite quantity of money.

Money is the universal equivalent form of all commodities, which already show in their prices that they ideally represent a specific sum of money, expect to be transformed into money, and only receive the form in which they can be converted into use-values for their possessor by changing places with money.

What is characteristic is not that the commodity labour-power can be bought, but the fact that labour-power appears as a commodity.

Use values become a reality only by use or consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth. In the form of society we are about to consider, they are, in addition, the material depositories of exchange value.

A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East Indian and Chinese markets, the colonization of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

La riqueza de las sociedades en las que domina el modo de producción capitalista se presenta como un enorme cúmulo de mercancías, y la mercancía individual como la forma elemental de esa riqueza

Capital consists not only of means of subsistence, instruments of labour and raw materials, not only of material products; it consists just as much of exchange values. All the products of which it consists are commodities. Capital is, therefore, not only a sum of material products; it is a sum of commodities, of exchange values, of social magnitudes.