Values Quotes

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Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. — Peter Drucker
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to… — Alain de Botton
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon… — Michel de Montaigne
As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to… — Ambrose Bierce
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values. — Robert Fulghum
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its… — John Dewey
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for… — Erich Fromm
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-Ã -brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above… — Oscar Wilde
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the… — Oscar Wilde
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which… — Ralph Ellison
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what… — Melissa Bank
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… — Arthur Koestler
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize.… — Saul Bellow
An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right… — Bertrand Russell
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson

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