Quotes About Value

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

In valuing the image over the word, we fall victim to the image's appearance of full revelation. Whereas the word prompts suspicion and questioning, the image produces belief and devotion. It is in this sense that Gilroy sees a latent fascism in the contemporary elevation of the image. The image today signifies the possibility of a completely successful process of manipulation.

More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.

The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even "real" money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized.

time was the ultimate commodity, and you were born with only so much to spend, and there was no passbook to tell you the exact amount.

Glory,' he added, reciting carefully, 'is the only commodity that seems to increase the more you spread it around.' I'd heard a similar version of that saying; it started Glory and dogshit are the two commodities . . .

If a problem is not worth solving, it's not worth solving well.

It's a matter of dignity," the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

Why, Tanuki grumbled, would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF LOVE is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. The

It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended." 86

Once you've taken the time to develop a comprehensive list of differentiators, you will want to use them quickly and efficiently to support the value propositions you offer.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

We ransomed our dignity to the clouds.

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.

Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all.

Las cartas de amor escritas a máquina valen menos que las otras.