Quotes About Value

What happy and successful single people are threatening is not the institution of marriage but the cultural consensus on its special value. Same-sex marriage does not threaten the institution of marriage, either. The sticking point (or at least one of them) is that large numbers of Americans remain unconvinced that gay men and lesbians are the moral equivalent of straight people. To them, keeping marriage pure and sacred means keeping same-sex partners out.

But I've learned that just because something isn't real doesn't mean it's not important.

In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn't get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums. An

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

If there is value in the standardized, performance-based curriculums utilized by the vast majority of schools, that value is realized primarily by the institutions themselves and by the economic and social structures that are fed by standardized learning.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!

The collective effort of repression was tremendous, made the alcohol indispensable. An intense but contentless optimism about the future was the only protection against the recent past, in which all the regimes of value had collapsed, irradiated or gassed.

Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure.

Poetry" is a word for a kind of value no particular poem can realize: the value of persons, the value of human activity beyond the labor/leisure divide, a value before or beyond price. Thus hating poetry can either be a way of negatively expressing poetry as an ideal [or] it can be a defensive rage against the mere suggestion that another world, another measure of value, is possible.

Gold is valuable because of its naturally occurring properties: it's scarce, durable, portable, divisible, fungible, hard to counterfeit, and easy to authenticate

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

La liberté c'est un privilège qu'on ne savoure vraiment qu'après qu'on vous en a privé.

were growing increasingly skeptical of Lehman's judgment of the value of its holdings.

lower long-term interest rates (to stimulate spending and investment) and raise short-term rates (to protect the value of the dollar, supposedly).

When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn't value truth cannot survive.

For professors, however, human life is not divine, and therefore man should be able to take it when he sees fit. Without a higher authority to answer to, life belongs only to the one who possesses it, and he or she can decide to end it.

like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

Since Punk, no-one is certain what garbage might not become gold

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value democracy.

A good slice of pizza can be as good as a $200 meal in a restaurant.

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.