Social Values Quotes - Page 2

• Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Unfortunate, Accidents

  "Morning Bell: The Judicial Oath vs Sonia Sotomayor" by Conn Carroll, www.dailysignal.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Age, Publicity

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• Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

  Edward de Bono

  Honesty, Long, Assuming

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Recycling, Boxes, Novel

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

  Sissy Spacek

  Motherhood, Years, Dozen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Workplace, Economic

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

  Rockwell Kent

  Art, Communication, Mean

  "It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent". Book by Rockwell Kent, 1955.

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• Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Profound, Consciousness

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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.

  Samuel

  Addresses, Architecture, Aesthetic

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• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Robert Reich

  Gay, Rights, Economic Value

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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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• I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, People, Republican

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Giving, Feelings

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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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• 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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• We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

  Mario Bunge

  Goal, Wish, Needs

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Believe, Self, Numbers

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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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• After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.

  David A. Strauss

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Baby, Kids

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• Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Expression, Energy

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