Values Quotes

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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. — Karl Marx
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value. — Karl Marx
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… — Karl Marx
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity . — Karl Marx
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less… — Karl Marx
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power… — Karl Marx
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. — Alan Alda
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. — Evelyn Waugh
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value… — Evelyn Waugh
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till… — Alfred North Whitehead
We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others. — Ronald Reagan
The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate.… — Ronald Reagan
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. — Jimmy Carter
Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar,… — Tom Peters
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the… — Willie Geist
I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing… — Edward Norton
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a… — Edward Norton
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton

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