26 Quotes About Social-values

In the end, it's not the market or technology that decides what has real value, but society. If we want this century to be one in which all of us get richer, then we'll need to free ourselves of the dogma that all work is meaningful. And, while we're at it, let's also get rid of the fallacy that a higher salary is automatically a reflection of societal value.

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

People who don't have valuesShow their beautyWho don't have beautyShow their shame

The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues.""And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur.""Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.

None of the human qualities can be regarded as the social values without the one quality of humanity

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

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.

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

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