Value Systems Quotes

• It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

  Jacque Fresco

  Inspirational, Wish, Different

  "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future" by Travis Donovan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2010.

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• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

  Bela Karolyi

  Book, Tv Shows, Magazines

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• It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

  Peter Hilton

  Teacher, Training, United States

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• What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Baby, Attitude, Taken

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• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Unhappy, Might, Facts

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Produce, Ability, Urges

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Power, Viewpoints, Underprivileged

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• You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Thinking, People, Lectures

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Civilization, Roots

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• I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

  Jane Goodall

  Grief, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Cynical, Feelings

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• Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

  Stephen Covey

  Vision, Principles, Culture

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• You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

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• The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Humanity

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• The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Issues, America

  "GOP Rising Star Tim Scott on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

  Mary Robinson

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.who.int

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• These two value systems [islam and U.S constitution] do not clash in any way, and my son is a member of the United States Armed Forces active duty. He`s proud to serve his country. And there are many more people who are exact same thing.

  Steve King

  Country, Son, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

  Alyson Stoner

  Honestly, Grounded, Values

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

  John Cleese

  West, Bikinis, Arabia

  "'Satire Makes People Think'". Interview with Christoph Scheuermann and Barbara Supp, www.spiegel.de. March 30, 2015.

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• Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

  John Stott

  Two, Persecution, Clash

  John R. W. Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1998). “The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character”, Intervarsity Press

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• These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, Southern

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

  Lauren Zalaznick

  Television, Values, Conscience

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• We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Creating, Giving

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