Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Everyone knows and understands the good values, but it is only the best people who go better to do good to uplift the human values.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .
I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
Some men wonder over God's values, others over the cut of a garment.
