Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
If you haven't been to two marketplaces, you don't know which is the best value.
A woman's advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
Each poem holds the voice of a moment. Held within, they are contained, damned to silence; released, they fly into the world to find a new heart and a new home within, where they will speak again.
It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.
