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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.
The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways.
In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.
Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.
The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.
Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.
Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.
With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.
Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime.
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.
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
Russia was dependent on China growing and driving the demand for its commodities: oil, gas and minerals. China was an alternative to Europe.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
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.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time.
There are real people on the pitch. We're not commodities. Well, maybe we are to some degree, but it's the team which creates business. Some people don't appreciate that.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed.
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators.
You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
