#value

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #nudity #television #values #violence

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bank #check #depends #drawn #general

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#inferior #say #sincerity #technique #test

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#desire #family #friends #friends and family #manifested

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #consciousness #proceeds #state #values

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe. ↗

— Harry Reid

#america #believe #century #compete #democrats