Values In Society Quotes

• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Adventure, Pride, Rocks

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.18, Penguin

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• To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

  Charles Koch

  Meaningful, Meaningful Work, Values

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.154, John Wiley & Sons

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• All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

  Martin Amis

  Mean, Fiction, Values

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Attachment, People

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• When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Thinking, Machines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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