Achievement Quote by Herbert Read

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but,…

— Alfred de Vigny

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

— Munira Mirza

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

— Stuart J. Russell

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the…

— Roger Scruton

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion…

— Herbert Marcuse

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Culture is a reflection of values.

— Luciana Berger

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen…

— Hu Shih

“What does "worth" mean...? It means that you leave the world a better place than when you found it.”

— Terry Pratchett