Commodities Quotes

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.