Quotes About Value

To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.

Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained when they vanished, that only catastrophe made notable?

Material things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. There are some I dearly wish might be spared.

Now we are more inclined to speak of information than of learning, and to think of the means by which information is transmitted rather than of how learning might transform, and be transformed by, the atmospheres of a given mind. We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought.

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

At the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

Meaningless would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. So it wouldn't be meaningless. That's where I always end up. Once you ask if there is meaning, the only answer is yes. You can't get away from it.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant, or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view. Scarcity is said to create value, after all.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Love is holy because it is like grace – the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

This government has represented benefits as somehow shameful. The point about universal benefits is that they affirm the value of such social tasks as having children, rearing them, or caring for relatives; they make benefits themselves an expression of collective approval for the endeavour, not begrudged hand-outs, stigmatising the recipients as beggars and failures.

But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.

La amistad lo es todo. La amistad vale más que el talento. Vale más que el Gobierno. La amistad vale casi tanto como la familia. Nunca lo olvides.

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Ninguna otra novela me ha dado tanto trabajo; por eso, si tuviera que salvar del fuego una sola de las que he escrito, salvaría ésta.

Ni en la guerra debe haber muertos inutiles. Usted me entiende, vaya al colegio y trate en el futuro de que la muerte del cadete Arana sirve para algo.

Un hombre debe vivir mientras sienta que la vida vale la pena.

Una cosa è credere che tutte le culture meritino considerazione, visto che tutte forniscono apporti positivi alla civiltà umana, e un'altra, molto diversa, è credere che tutte, per il semplice fatto di esistere, si equivalgano.

He chose you because a plain setting makes the diamond sparkle brighter.

La libertà ha sempre un prezzo.

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

People will fight for money and they'll fight when they're drafted and forced to, but they will also go to war or put themselves in danger when they find a cause—political or religious—that makes them feel valued, important and wanted.

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it's true that nothing matters more to us than that.

Busy work often looks more like work than real work does