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Truth is commodity in political consumption.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Commodity Consumption Political Truth

In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition.

~ Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson Art Commodity Entertainment Literature Stories Surrealism Writers Writing

Knowledge is the most prized commodity in the entire universe, and it is infinite in its commodity.

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Commodity Infinite Knowledge Prized Suzy Kassem Universe

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Abandoned Availability Available Commodities Commodity Common Common Sense Discernment Fool Foolish Foolishness Forsaken Ignorance Ignore Ignored Knowledge Reject Rejected Resources Unused Wisdom

Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

~ Moutasem Algharati

Moutasem Algharati Commodity Dividends Experience Inspirational Quotes Knowledge Knowledge Quotes Knowledge Wisdom Monopoly Networking Quote Remain Selective Thinking Sharing Sharing Thoughts

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Temitope Ibrahim Commodity Everyone Insight Knowledge Life Life Lessons Possess Possessions Precious True Truth Understanding Wisdom

If we could treat every natural resource as a gift rather than a commodity, we would be on the path to sustainability. The difference is that a gift does not belong to us but to the universe. It comes into our lives from a source that is unknown and ultimately unknowable; eventually , it returns to its source.

~ Victor Shamas

Victor Shamas Commodity Gift Gifts Of The Spirit Spirit Spiritual Spirituality Spirituality Quotes Sustainability Sustainability Quotes

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

~ Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Bazaar Bullet Chocolate Commodity Lives Silk War

Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Commodity Mystery Society

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

~ Noel Dejesus

Noel Dejesus Ambition Business Commodity Leadership Leadership Development Potential Success

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage disposal. A complete and sudden change of spirit has become essential, by bringing to light forgotten desires and creating entirely new ones. And by an intensive propaganda in favor of these desires.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

~ Tom Mcdonough

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Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

~ Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison Commodity Courage Writers

You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Commodity Consciousness Predator

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

~ Karl Marx

Karl Marx Abstract Labor Capital Commodity Karl Marx Labor Time Value

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Borrowed Bought Commodity Gift Given Inherited Only Sold Time

Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.

~ Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Commodity Intellect Knowledge Marxism Thought Wisdom

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Affection Commodity Copulation Dating Love Marriage Procreation Relationships Reproduction Social Constructs

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Capitalism Commodification Commodity Exploitation Materialism Money Profit Restaurant

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Commodity Inspirational Lie Lying Mark Twain Truth Twain Wise

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.

~ Mark Allen Smith

Mark Allen Smith Commodity Damage End Fist Grasp Help Produce Profit Remarkable Serve Trade Truth Versatile Weapon Wield

Civilians are like beans, you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can't buy fighting spirit.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Civilian Commodity Contractor Military

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

~ Christine Baranski

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