Quotes About Exchange

The difficulty," he says, "lies not in comprehending that money is a commodity, but in discovering how, why and by what means a commodity becomes money" (186): What appears to happen is not that a particular commodity becomes money because all other commodities universally express their values in it, but, on the contrary, that all other commodities universally express their values in a particular commodity because it is money. (187, emphasis added)

The rise of monetary exchange leads to socially necessary labor-time becoming the guiding force within a capitalistic mode of production. Therefore, value as socially necessary labor-time is historically specific to the capitalist mode of production. It arises only in a situation where market exchange is doing the requisite job.

Reciprocity is not mandatory.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.

Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God's method of self-denial for Satan's plan of self–improvement.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

No tricks, Syn, " Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away."Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit, " I said

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.