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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

  Bob Lutz

  Religious, Commitment, Marine

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification.  These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.

  Jacque Fresco

  Men, Light, Self

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• Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values.  Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system.  What do we mean by values?  Our values are what we want out of life.  No one is born with a set of values.  Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Reflection, Air

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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• How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

  Dave Ramsey

  Passion, Goal, Priorities

  Dave Ramsey (1999). “More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny”, p.28, Penguin

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• The gay movement doesn't care about what you think...they're focused on the young ones because if you can put the ideas into their minds it's just a matter of time before you die off and they take your place and their value system will then allow all the rules to be changed.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Thinking, Ideas

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• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Class, Evil, Poverty

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• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  Adam Clayton

  Loyalty, Jobs, Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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