Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.
Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.
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.
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.
Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U. S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if I don't feel a strong spark of excitement or creativity. Sometimes it is very difficult to get things flowing. It's important to be in a peaceful state of mind, and then I invite the spirits to come into the studio. I don't stare into a blank canvas or paper. I look through my various collections of books, toys, statues, photographs and other things, and something will trigger an idea. My studio is packed full of things that inspire me.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.
Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.