Quotes About Value

If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds on the condition that value extends equally to all living beings. This means that we have to think not only about persons, but animals; and not only about living creatures, but living processes, the systems and forms of life.

The health of the economy was understood to be more valuable and urgent than the health of the people. ... But the transposition of health onto the economy did not just transfer a human attribute to the markets; it literally drained health from living bodies to establish health for the economy. That has been a deadly form of displacement and inversion within the logic of capitalism that comes to the fore within pandemic times.

If being wealthy costs you the right to relax and enjoy life, then the price of wealth is altogether too high.

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

Waqt rehte kar qadar Waqt guzarne pe qadar kya hain

See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them.

Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.

In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue. That is why academic politics are so bitter.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and may never hear from, who perhaps do not even exist except in your hopes? Why spend ten years in an apprenticeship to fiction only to discover that this society so little values what you do that it won't pay you a living wage for it?

Money is a kind of poetry.

The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

There is one thing which no one will permit to be treated lightly—himself.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Kitsch is decorous object with fake attraction that is in fact without value. In light of the poem of Job, I suggest that when our ministry does not challenge and offend and open news paths, we are likely to be engaged in religious kitsch.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Using 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, Ann Hill and June O'Neill found that a 50 percent increase in the monthly value of welfare benefits led to a 43 percent increase in the number of out-of-wedlock

A man needs something, some sense of accomplishment to maintain his sense of human dignity, of his value and worth as a person; even under the most stringent, most repetitious and boring routine, a man seeks something to maintain his sense of dignity and of worth.

La maravilla de la gracia de Dios que transforma las acciones humanas carentes de valor en medios eficaces para extender el reino de Cristo en la tierra causa un asombro y una humildad sin límites, y aporta una paz y una alegría desconocidas para quienes nunca lo han experimentado e inexplicable para los que no creen.

In and through the personal rediscovery of the great, we find that we need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances'...but that by linking ourselves...with the great we can become freer- freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value.

We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish?

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.