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Values Quotes by Ezra Pound
- Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the…
- The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
- Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
- A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
- Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
- I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner