Values Quotes

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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. — Milton Friedman
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most… — Milton Friedman
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the… — Erich Fromm
My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids. — Robert Fulghum
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. — John W. Gardner
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could… — Henry Louis Gates
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. — J. Paul Getty
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads… — Carlos Ghosn
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change… — Roland Gift
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -… — Ellen Goodman
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial,… — Al Gore
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such… — Ashley Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. — Alan Greenspan
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast. — Dick Gregory

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