Cornel West Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Thinking, People

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Buying, Love And Trust

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

• All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

  Cornel West

  Determined, Individual, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Think For Yourself, Values

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2010

• The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Ought, Mechanism

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Priorities

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

• Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

  Cornel West

  Language, Remember, My Family

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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