Commodified Quotes

#1. I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

Jill Scott

#2. I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. i began to see that i had commodified myself.... i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment.

Fred Turner

#4. The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

Fred Tomaselli

#5. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Karen Haber

#6. As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

Henry Giroux

#7. The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

Daniel Pennac

#8. One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

#9. Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Leith Gollner

#10. Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Claire

#11. Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Harriet Harman

#12. The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Tit Elingtin

#13. We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

Mel Gibson

#14. The men of the east may search the scrolls,
For sure fates and fame,
But the men that drink the blood of God go singing to their shame.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. They become more personable as you head south, the people. You sit in a diner and, along with your coffee and your food, they bring you comments, questions, smiles, and nods.

Neil Gaiman

#16. I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

John Brown

#17. Yeah, well, if wishes were horses I wouldn't need a ride home.

Robert J. Crane

#18. I don't care about my image.

Jean Dujardin

#19. Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

Zicheng Hong

#20. Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.

Paul Russell