Commodification Quotes

#1. The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Morris Berman

#2. The sale of indulgences is sometimes regarded as one of the first major waves of capitalist commodification. It certainly laid the basis for all that hoarded wealth in the Vatican. Talk about the commodification of conscience and honor!

David Harvey

#3. If the social order and the processes of commodification are not transformed in relation to the body through salvation, then salvation becomes hyperlocalized to a single relationship: God and the one being saved.64

Willie James Jennings

#4. There are no backwaters where things can breed - our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We've arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.

William Gibson

#5. The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.

Edward E. Baptist

#6. We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

Cornel West

#7. I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

Lena Dunham

#8. The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman.

Mira Jacob

#9. That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

N.K. Jemisin

#12. Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Sufjan Stevens

#13. I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

Malaika Arora Khan

#14. You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have

Barbara Delinsky

#15. The world is too complex to give you merely a list of practices to follow. What managers in the 21st century need most is insight so that they can develop their own prescriptions for their own particular needs

Jurgen Appelo

#16. [H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Orson Scott Card

#17. I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

Tika Sumpter

#18. Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish.

Irvin D. Yalom

#19. [H]aving a money value was no substitute for love.

Margaret Atwood

#20. 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

#21. Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Mary Slessor

#22. The air swirled into darkness around Paran. He blinked, saw the trees of the estate garden rising before him.

Steven Erikson