Value Quotes - page 97

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. (Ayn Rand)
Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. In such a world, we must combat terrorism with an infectious security culture that crosses borders - an inclusive approach to security based on solidarity and the value of human life. In such a world, weapons of mass destruction have no place. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time. View quote
Magic Johnson
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. View quote
Camille Pissarro
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. View quote
Alfred Marshall
We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art. ...Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master. The danger is that it may lead to a cramped and mechanical design. One may easily become a slave to the module, and do things because of it which his taste or reason would not otherwise commend. ...How can the danger be avoided and the benefits secured? View quote
Ernest Flagg
The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
Meanwhile, please pardon us for saying that we have found no music in the language of your letter, no rhyme in your reasoning, no value in your judgments, and no art or education in your performance as a whole. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value. View quote
Max Lucado
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. (Ezra Taft Benson)
I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world. View quote
Angelina Jolie
What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery. The flight of the buzzard and similar sailors is a convincing demonstration of the value of skill and the partial needlessness of motors. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery... View quote
Wilbur Wright
So long as you live and in whatever circumstances the kaleidoscope of life may place you, think for yourself and act in accordance with the conclusions of that thinking; avoid so far as possible drifting with the current of the mob or being too easily influenced by the outward manifestation of things. Take your own look beneath the surface and don't trust others to look for you. If you will follow this rule consistently, I am sure you will keep out of much trouble, will make the most out of your life and, what is more, will contribute most of value to the community life. View quote
Frank B. Jewett
Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison. View quote
Zadie Smith
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. View quote
Luigi Pirandello
You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value. View quote
Moby
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. View quote
Paul Hawken
Peace is what today's world needs most urgently, in Egypt, in Syria, in the Middle East, in Africa. Peace and reconciliation. Peace with rehabilitation of victims. Peace with understanding of causes. Peace with a plan for reconstruction – but not only material reconstruction. Moral reconstruction, value reconstruction, commitment to human dignity, faith in the future – this is essential to achieve peace with justice. (Alfred de Zayas)
Books don't have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we don't just read "good" books because they're good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside ourselves, good and bad. We read to challenge ourselves... View quote
Mariko Tamaki
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. View quote
Martin H. Fischer
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, ... I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us. View quote
Colin Powell
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country. View quote
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim