#value

What you risk reveals what you value. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#risk #value #you

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art-appreciation #artistic #artists #dead #death

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don't want them to suffer. And because we eat them. Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral discomfort. In order to alleviate this discomfort, we have three choices: we can change our values to match our behaviors, we can change our behaviors to match our values, or we can change our perception of our behaviors so that they appear to match our values. It is around this third option that our schema of meat is shaped. As long as we neither value unnecessary animal suffering nor stop eating animals, our schema will distort our perceptions of animals and the meat we eat, so that we feel comfortable enough to consume them. And the system that constructs our schema of meat equips us with the means by which to do this. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#behavior #carnism #eating-animals #empathy #meat

When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for? ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#technology #values-in-life #change

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#every #history #make #our #ourselves

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#healthy #india #into #nation #prosperous

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#academic #because #being #book #childhood

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#earnestness #face #face value #media #people

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#fact #give #in fact #individual #individual rights

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values. ↗

— Claudia Kennedy

#damages #itself #live #own #up