Quotes by Social Values The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values. Arnold Gesell social-valueschildrensex By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy. Ben Bagdikian social-valuescatviews 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. Charles Colson social-valuesspiritualcountry I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value. David Letterman redeemingsocial-valuestalent My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture. David Palmer social-valuesvisionculture There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. Dorothy L. Sayers social-valueslimitationkind Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. Edward de Bono social-valueshonestylong I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Ellen Goodman social-valuesrecyclingboxes 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. Ellen Willis social-valuescollegehome Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. Emily Post social-valuescourtesymanners Work is valued by the social value of the worker. Gloria Steinem social-valuesreconstructionracism Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes. Herbert Read social-valuesgivingart I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that. Jamie Dimon social-valuespeoplethinking Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value. Kay Redfield Jamison confidentialitysocial-valuesancient Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp. L. Neil Smith social-valuesfundirty Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work! Leigh Steinberg social-valuesreflectionneeds We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value. Leo Kadanoff social-valuesselfbelieve Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. Louis D. Brandeis social-valuesdesireneeds We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health. Mario Bunge social-valuesgoalwish 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. Matt Damon social-valuesactorsfeels12»
