26 Quotes About Social-values



  • Author Peter Singer
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    Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

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  • Author Robert Smithson
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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

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  • Author Sissy Spacek
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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.

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

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  • Author Ellen Willis
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    Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.

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