Quotes About Values

although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

Luminous Processes,' declared the local paper, 'seems to put profits before people.' How quickly we forget.

It was a place where folks were happy simply to get on with life: raise their families, do good work, live decent lives.

Nudges and network effects often work because they tap into underlying norms and values—such as duty, respect and care—and those values can be activated directly.

The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,' said Milton Friedman back in 1970, and the mainstream business world willingly believed him.

over the past couple of centuries, just as Rostow spelled out, capitalist economies have restructured their laws, institutions, policies and values so that they are geared to expect, demand and depend upon continual GDP growth.

full century on, John Maynard Keynes echoed Mill's sentiments, asserting (rather wishfully) that 'the day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems—the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion'.

As our emerging self-portrait makes clear, we are motivated by far more than cost and price. So instead of turning first to markets to mediate our social and ecological relationships, the twenty-first-century economist would be wise to start by asking what social dynamics are already in play. What are the values, heuristics, norms and networks that currently shape human behaviour—and how could they be nurtured or nudged, rather than ignored and eroded?

Rethinking economics is not about finding the correct one (because it doesn't exist); it's about choosing or creating one that best serves our purpose—reflecting the context we face, the values we hold, and the aims we have.

Third, nurture human nature. At the heart of twentieth-century economics stands the portrait of rational economic man: he has told us that we are self-interested, isolated, calculating, fixed in taste and dominant over nature—and his portrait has shaped who we have become. But human nature is far richer than this, as early sketches of our new self-portrait reveal: we are social, interdependent, approximating, fluid in values and dependent upon the living world.

Drawing on his uncle's insights into the workings of the human mind, Bernays knew that the secret to influencing preferences lay not in advertising a product's attributes (it's bigger, faster, shinier!) but in associating that product with deeply held values, such as freedom and power.

A business that is built on a living purpose may have strong foundations, but without a source of finance that is aligned with its values it is unlikely to survive and thrive.

As economist Tim Jackson deftly put it, we are 'persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to make impressions that won't last on people we don't care about'.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

There are solutions to the major problems of our time; some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, our values. And, indeed, we are now at the beginning of such a fundamental change of worldview in science and society, a change of paradigms as radical as the Copernican revolution. Unfortunately, this realization has not yet dawned on most of our political leaders, who are unable to "connect the dots," to use a popular phrase.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.