109 quotes found
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
“Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.”
“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.”
“A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgmen...”
“The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.”
“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
“The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.”
“The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.”
“Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of univers...”
“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are sub...”
“Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. ”
“For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barri...”
“Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower in...”
“The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.”
“In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.”
“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'pu...”
“The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do every...”
“Freedom is a universal value.”
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
