Values Quotes · Page 141

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain…

— David Ricardo

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

— Barack Obama

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through…

— Swami Vivekananda

Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.

— Barack Obama

For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.

— Ayanna Pressley

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

— Samora Machel

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value…

— William Poundstone

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in…

— Ben Shahn

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation…

— Bertrand Russell

AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this…

— Laura Bush

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the…

— Patricia Churchland

Nowadays, you can't broadcast dodgy special effects and then put up a caption saying, 'Sorry, this is what the budget was.' You…

— Jed Mercurio

Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged…

— Rajneesh

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money,…

— Jeffrey Kluger

A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin…

— Jorge Elbrecht

“We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency,…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…

— Harold Bloom

People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn…

— David Packard

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for…

— Lawrence Lessig

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential…

— Dennis Prager

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's…

— Alfredo Jaar

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him…

— Richard Salter Storrs

Live with a positive attitude, practice wellness, never regret failure, continue to learn, work with passion, care for others without expectation.

— Anil Sinha

Listening to and learning from employers, workers and educators about issues they face allows me to better represent them and their values…

— Jon Husted

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

— Felix Frankfurter

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

— Shakti Gawain

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

— George Orwell

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

— Donella Meadows

Earn money respect them but learn values and worship them as they are priceless and even money cannot buy them

— Madhu

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

— Shmuley Boteach

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

— Leon Botstein

Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.

— Hillary Clinton

Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommit to the covenant that binds them together.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Million Dollar Arm touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundations core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

— Joe Torre

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time…

— Mandy Moore

The selflessness and service of the veterans I have met and served with are the living embodiment of what America and American…

— Amy McGrath

“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has…

— Dejan Stojanovic

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

— William Penn