Social Values Quotes

• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

  Leigh Steinberg

  Reflection, Needs, Economy

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• My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

  David Palmer

  Vision, Culture, Massage

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• Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives us the ability to respond (response-ability), and its empowering use often defines the truly responsible among us.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Giving

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• Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Reconstruction, Workers

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

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• Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Ancient, Confidentiality, Wells

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• There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kind, Limitation, Social

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• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Safety, Diversity, Negative

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

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• People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Jobs, Long, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Desire, Needs, Legislation

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• On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Hands, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

  Emily Post

  Courtesy, Manners, Certain

  Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

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• It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.

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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Imagination, Design, Ordinary

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• As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

  Matt Damon

  Actors, Feels, Materials

  "Matt Damon Interview INVICTUS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Heart, Hands, Work Out

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Ch. 25, 1974.

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• As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Government, 80s And 90s, Rose

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.

  Arnold Gesell

  Sex, Children, Age

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• I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

  David Letterman

  Talent, Redeeming, Social

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fun, Dirty, Ashes

  "The Venus Belt". Book by L. Neil Smith, 1980.

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• The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

  Stewart Udall

  Country, Father, Opportunity

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• Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.

  Ellen Willis

  Home, College, Odds

  "The Pernicious Concept of 'Balance'". "The Chronicle of Higher Education", September 9, 2005.

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• Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.

  Charles Colson

  Spiritual, Country, Law

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• Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

  Paul Ormerod

  Cities, United States, Example

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Party, Conservative, Republican

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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