Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.
Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
