Values Quotes - Page 9

• As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

  Jacque Fresco

  Air, Self, Water

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Behavior, Customs

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• I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

  Dov Seidman

  Morning, Order, Bed

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• Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

  Steve Goodier

  Needs, Enough, Accepting

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• Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated - it matters...that people matter.

  Steve Goodier

  People, Want, Might

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• Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Rain, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Real, Believe

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• But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Simple, Environmental, Golden

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• Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, People, Giving

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Land, Government

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• The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

  David W. Orr

  Ideas, Perception, Mind

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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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• We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.

  Paul Hawken

  Jobs, Cities, Environmental

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• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Hands, Should Have

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• There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Spiritual, Environmental

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.401, Ballantine Books

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• We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Race, Environmental

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• It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Humor, Easy

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Daughter, Light

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• As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.

  Julian Assange

  Life, Country, Fighting

  "France rejects WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's 'protection' request" by Laura Smith-Spark and Sandrine Amiel, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Life, Art, Science

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• My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Kids, Parent, Belief

  "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.

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• A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Two, Differences

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• A food's value is based on how good it tastes.

  Homaro Cantu

  Taste

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