Quotes About Value

M]an never, or at least not normally and primarily, sees in the partners whom he encounters and in the causes to which he commits himself merely a means to an end; for then he actually would have destroyed any authentic relationship to them. Then, they would have become mere tools, being of use for him, but, by the same token, would have ceased to have any value, that is to say, value in itself.

The majority of prisoners suffered from a kind of inferiority complex. We all had once been or had fancied ourselves to be 'somebody.' Now we were treated like complete nonentities (The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)

I have met the town idiot, who declares that all the automobiles in the world are of less value than a single human life. I have met the most harmless inhabitant of Pine Beach: a wise man.

Tag vara på ditt liv! Akta det väl! Slarva inte bort det. För nu är det din stund på jorden!

I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)

Darling, we're all whores under the skin, whether we give ourselves by calculation or by desire. It's just that some of us demand a higher price than others.

The cultural authenticity of cloth arises not from the purity of its origins but from the ways in which individuals and groups turn textiles to their own purposes. Consumers, not producers, determine the meaning and value of textiles.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

the value of education is among the greatest of all human values...

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Never pretend that children, for instance, can be replaced by other things.

I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Gold runs in our blood.

Society gives me chicken and coffee, bed and lodging, in return for a certain number of pieces of paper which were left me by an aunt, for no other reason than that I share her name.

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'.