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“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”

Values Social Greater Greatness Depends Amount Mass Labor Productions Substance Relative Commodity Relative Value

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“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.”

Men Shows Values Ability Pay Depends Taxes Mass Capitalist Commodity Gross Revenue Landlord

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”

Ifs Thinking Should Individual Speak Freedom Progress Mankind Depends Speech Mass Objectives Individualism Free Thought

Author:Louis J. Halle

“Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.”

“A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.”

“We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.”

Knows World Wells Happens Certain Levels Taken Havens Depends Mass Species Including Forests Soil Organisms Ecology Predictions Crude Microbes Hardwood Invertebrates

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.”

Design Building Depends Mass Weight Relative Majesty Tribute

Author:John Ruskin

“...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.”

Practice Communication Revolution Depends Mass Competent Organisation Enlisting

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.”

Humans Millions Progress Depends Mass Add Superiors Rhythm Minorities Human Progress

Book:Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice

Source: Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice