Values Quotes

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Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good;… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. — Ingrid Betancourt
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as… — Bell Hooks
I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense… — Tim Gunn
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and… — Michael Sandel
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be… — Michael Sandel
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time. — Jim Rohn
Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or donâ€™t you?â€ â€œOf course I believe in the truth,â€ said Rhoda, staring. â€œYes, you… — Agatha Christie
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what… — Bell Hooks
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to… — Graham Greene
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life… — Adrian Tan
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in… — Bell Hooks
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I… — Marilynne Robinson
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent… — Shirley Jackson
We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only… — Ai Yazawa

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