What do you think it is that makes a man" I started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words. "It is not!" he said. "A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?" ... "Well, then, what makes a man a man is so...
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indign...
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I c...
Caregivers, like all of us, inevitably reflect their culture's attitude toward children and life. The story goes that when Pearl Buck was a child in China, someone asked how she compared her mother to her Chinese amah. Buck replied, "If I want to hav...
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is s...
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclu...
You only value something if you know it’ll end.
I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
I’d start a war just to illustrate the value of peace.
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
This forest silence improves anyone.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
