Value Quotes - page 13

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. View quote
Bertrand Russell
While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know. View quote
Bertrand Russell
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words. View quote
George Chapman
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. View quote
David Harvey
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value. View quote
David Harvey
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate. View quote
David Harvey
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. View quote
David Harvey
Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works. View quote
Bill Hybels
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. (Ulysses S. Grant)
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value. View quote
Walter Pater
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them. View quote
Northrop Frye
Economics and ethics naturally come into rather intimate relations with each other since both recognizedly deal with the problem of value. View quote
Frank Knight
Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. View quote
Eugene Fama
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. View quote
Alice Meynell
Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements. View quote
Kenneth Clark
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love. View quote
Johnny Depp
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome. (Francis Bacon)
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love. View quote
John Calvin
The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power... View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. View quote
William F. Buckley
Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do. View quote
Natalie Portman