Quotes on Values

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.