Commodity Quotes - Page 6

• Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Media, People

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• I personally make sure that some of my investments are in foreign securities or in international commodity portfolios that are independent of the US dollar. But that's a personal preference. I do not invest in currencies because it's so complicated and so risky. I would not attempt that without excellent professional help.

  Hedrick Smith

  Independent, Helping, Complicated

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

  Thomas Friedman

  Technology, Remember, Gas

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies through images of an impossible ideal, we create a really vulnerable and avid consumer. If somebody feels that they're not OK without a certain product, you have a very deep and loyal market that will come back to the product again and again. Sometimes, this process is both rational and irrational.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Girl, Insecurity, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

  Colin Firth

  Drama, Comedy, Spontaneity

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Bigotry

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.

  Michio Kaku

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Country, Thinking, Wife

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• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, War, Corn

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• Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

  Henry Giroux

  Justice, Financial, Welfare

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.

  Eef Barzelay

  Wall, Thinking, Logical

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly because consumers have to pay most of their wages to the FIRE sector for rent or mortgage payments, student loans, bank and credit card debt, plus over 15 percent FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare actually, to enable the government to cut taxes on the higher income brackets, as well income and sales taxes.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Cutting, Students

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because we're big consumers: we probably take about a quarter of global demand. But if suddenly, let's just use a crazy example, fighting in the Middle East led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and no oil could get out through the Strait of Hormuz, well that would affect China, India, Europe, it will affect the whole global economy. It will affect us, too, then.

  Thomas Friedman

  Crazy, Fighting, Europe

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• "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.

  Adrienne Rich

  Marketing, Culture, Interest

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Shoes, Magic

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Reason, Sensitive

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.

  Stephen Marche

  Arabia, Body, Patriarchal Society

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows that poor people can buy less food than you would expect from the PPP that the World Bank is using. The reason for this is obvious on reflection. It has to do with the fact that most foodstuffs are tradable commodities: basic foodstuffs, such as rice, flour and beans, can easily be conveyed across national borders and their prices will therefore roughly mirror the exchange rates among currencies.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Reflection, Mirrors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Art, Business, Special

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• The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects. The organizational structures that make such knowledge possible enact serious costs on any viable notion of critical education and critical pedagogy. Teachers are deskilled, largely reduced to teaching for the test, business culture organizes the governance structures of schooling, knowledge is viewed as a commodity, and students are treated reductively as both consumers and workers.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot think clearly, nor act morally or altruistically, nor experience love and hatred, or kindness and terror, in the same way that we can.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Kindness, School, Thinking

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• The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Love Is, Important

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Believe, Ideas, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Country, Important, Storm

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

  David Harvey

  Inflation, Hard

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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