Quotes About Commercialization

#1. The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Andrew Young

#2. The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

Benjamin Creme

#3. When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Matthew Sweet

#4. However, as commercialization of microfinance deepens, the proportion of female clientele of microfinance institutions will decline steadily.

Godwin Ehigiamusoe

#5. If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Keith Haring

#6. I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Peter Jennings

#7. While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Chetan Bhagat

#8. So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Chris Carter

#9. I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

Linus Torvalds

#10. I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

Linus Torvalds

#11. I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

Beverly Cleary

#12. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Volkmar Sigusch

#13. Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Vint Cerf

#14. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

Christopher Tolkien

#15. I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

M.J. Rose

#16. Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

James Blake

#18. We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#19. While an open network ensures the equal treatment of all data - something undoubtedly essential for a democratic networked society - it does not sweep away all the problems of the old-media model, failing to adequately address the commercialization and consolidation of the digital sphere.

Astra Taylor

#20. I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Edward Albee

#21. Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Lauryn Hill

#22. Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

Zac Posen

#23. Innovation is the act of turning invention into something useful, while commercialization translates innovations into valuable products and services. Innovation

Shane Greenstein

#24. I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

Ernesto Cardenal

#25. I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Edmund Hillary

#26. A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#27. A sad day: when beauty became a commodity.

Marty Rubin

#28. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust

Nathanael West

#29. After filing a patent, your job is only quarter done.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#30. Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises

Richard Flanagan