Quotes About Value

Trump and his legions invoke a history to justify their belief in the value gap. In doing so, they stand in the long lineage of white people in the United States who have used a certain understanding of the past to reinforce the injustices of the present day. Baldwin's moral vision requires a confrontation with history—with slavery and with the ongoing consequences of the after times—shorn of the rosy tint of American innocence in order to overcome its hold on us.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Cheap, sentimental things

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

Though last not least.

one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emerald.

La idea de ganarse la confianza ajena sin dar a cambio la suya le parecía el colmo de la sabiduría.

All gold is fool's gold.

When life is cheap death is rich.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.

A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.

Integrity means wholeness, unity; the idea of integrity as a value is the idea of a life lived as a whole rather than as a series of disconnected episodes.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.