Quotes Tagged With :commodity

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour....

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified....

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be....

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies....

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than....

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag....

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified....

American culture is a sheep culture—long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity.....