Salable Commodity Quotes & Sayings

The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not. — Erich Fromm

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. — Herman Kahn

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. — Richard Cecil

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not — Sizzla

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns. — Erich Fromm

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. — James Russell Lowell

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. — Terry Southern

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it. — Gay Talese

Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately. — Joshua Ferris

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy. — Robert Heilbroner

Start with the end in mind. — Reza Nazari

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left. — William Hazlitt

Can a country's people be better than its planes? — Ismail Kadare