Social Values Quotes:

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

topic: Sex, Children, Social Values, Old Traditions, Different Ages

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

topic: Party, Social Values, Conservative

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

topic: Jobs, Social Values, Long

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

topic: Social Values, Government, 80s And 90s

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

source: Source: deutsche-denker.de

topic: Social Values, Goal, Wish, Mutual Trust

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

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Social Values

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

topic: Believe, Social Values, Self

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

topic: Spiritual, Country, Social Values, Value Systems

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

topic: Social Values, Law, Unfortunate

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

source: Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

topic: Social Values, Safety, Diversity, Diminishing Returns, Articulation

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

topic: Social Values, Racism, Reconstruction

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Direct Action, Social Values, Expression

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

source: "Matt Damon Interview INVICTUS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 10, 2009.

topic: Social Values, Actors, Feels

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

source: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Ch. 25, 1974.

topic: Heart, Social Values, Hands, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Head And Heart

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

source: Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

topic: Social Values, Support, Intellectual

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

topic: Social Values, Kind, Limitation

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

topic: Photography, Social Values, Age

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

- Edward de Bono

source: Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Honesty, Social Values, Long

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

- L. Neil Smith

source: "The Venus Belt". Book by L. Neil Smith, 1980.

topic: Fun, Dirty, Social Values, Nudists

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

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Thinking, Social Values, People