Commodity Quotes - Page 10

• Impuesto especial: Un odioso impuesto que grava las mercancías y que no es adjudicado por los jueces comunes de la propiedad, sino por los miserables contratados por aquellos a quienes se paga el impuesto especial.

  Samuel Johnson

  Judging, Hateful, Common

  Diccionario de la lengua inglesa (1755)

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• Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, May, Want

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Si las noticias radiofónicas deben considerarse una mercancía, sólo aceptables cuando son vendibles, entonces no me importa cómo se llamen: yo digo que no son noticias.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Radio News, Care, Acceptable

  Discurso pronunciado el 15 de octubre de 1958 en la Convención de la Radio-Television News Directors Association, Chicago, Illinois.

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• 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.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Machinery, Consumed

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.26

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• Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

  Tillie Olsen

  Economy, Profit, Products

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.170, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.

  Ravi Gomatam

  Chica, Escuela, Chicos

  Interview with Thomas Beardy, Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper), 1990.

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• Civilization is a perishable commodity.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Civilización

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• I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Next Day, Sound, India

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• Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

  William H. McMaster

  Giving, Advice, Trying

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• We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Energy, Information, Robust

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Lo que hoy se llama inflación no es la inflación, es decir, el aumento de la cantidad de dinero y de los sustitutos del dinero, sino la subida general de los precios de los productos básicos y de los salarios, que es la consecuencia inevitable de la inflación.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Commodity Prices, People, Investing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). "Planificación para la libertad, y otros doce ensayos y discursos".

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• La libertad se ha convertido en una mercancía cuya disponibilidad, paradójicamente, mantiene a raya a la sociedad. La amenaza de su pérdida parece permitirnos tolerar su imposición.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Loss, Availability, Checks

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

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• When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

  Jan Struther

  Order, Speech, Scarcity

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• If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

  David Ricardo

  Way, Would Be, Might

  David Ricardo (1817). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Moving, Yield

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• In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Long, Competition

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

  Paul Ford

  Bitcoin, Tied

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• La enseñanza puede compararse con la venta de productos básicos. Nadie puede vender a menos que alguien compre.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, May, Selling

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

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• El talento es una mercancía terriblemente barata, más barata que la sal de mesa. Lo que separa al individuo con talento del que tiene éxito es mucho trabajo y estudio; un proceso constante de perfeccionamiento. El talento es un cuchillo sin filo que no corta nada si no se empuña con fuerza.

  Stephen King

  Trabajo, Corte, Éxito

  Stephen King (2011). "Danse Macabre", p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Creo que la norma actual de que ninguna palabra es impresentable no ha hecho nada por las letras bonitas. ... La obscenidad es un bien demasiado valioso como para tirarlo por todas partes; sólo debería sacarse de la caja fuerte en ocasiones especiales.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hermoso, Tomado, Pensamiento

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Believe, People

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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• Una vez que la opinión pública se convence de que el aumento de la cantidad de dinero continuará y nunca llegará a su fin, y que, en consecuencia, los precios de todos los productos básicos no dejarán de subir, todo el mundo se vuelve ansioso por comprar tanto como sea posible y restringir sus tenencias de efectivo al mínimo... Si la expansión del crédito no se detiene a tiempo, el auge se convierte en auge del crack-up: comienza la huida hacia los valores reales y todo el sistema monetario se viene abajo.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Cracks

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• 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.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Home, Class

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.387

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• In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

  Dan Barber

  Agriculture, Understanding, Ingredients

  Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.120, Penguin

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