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Values Quotes - Page 17

False values begin with the worship of things.

Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.94, Macmillan

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

"Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

"Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "The First Unmasking of Nature", 1995.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.46, Mango Media Inc.

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

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

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.

Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.20, Macmillan

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi