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Values Quotes by Roland Barthes
- Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are…
- The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
- In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The…
- For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object…
- Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the…
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
- 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
- [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
- The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. — Karen Armstrong