Quotes by Social Values Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. Martin Luther King, Jr. direct-actionsocial-valuesexpression As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. Naomi Wolf social-valuesworkplaceself-esteem Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired. Paul Ormerod social-valuesunited-statescities 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. Peter Singer social-valueslongschool A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them. Rashid Khalidi social-valuesconservativeparty Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. Reinhold Niebuhr social-valuesmenprofound Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig social-valueshearthands A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not. Robert M. Pirsig social-valuessupportintellectual A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. Robert Reich social-valuesgayrights Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly. Roland Barthes social-valuesphotographyage Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives us the ability to respond (response-ability), and its empowering use often defines the truly responsible among us. Rosalie Maggio social-valuesgratitudeappreciation Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. Samuel Mockbee social-valuesdesignimagination Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. Samuel social-valuesaddressesarchitecture The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together Scott Lively social-valuesgaytogether 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. Sissy Spacek social-valuesmotherhoodyears Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Sonia Sotomayor social-valuesunfortunatelaw People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit. Stewart D. Friedman social-valuesjobslong As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered. Ted Nordhaus 80s-and-90ssocial-valuesgovernment 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. Thomas Sowell social-valuesdiversitysafety«12
