#values

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. ↗

— Edward Levi

#carries #forward #instrument #law #may

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#men

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#compassion #inspirational #kindness #inspirational

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#inspiration #inspirational #knowledge #learning #philosophy

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. ↗

— Sam Walton

#customers #each #hold #reflect #should

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#confidence #global #global market #held #market

I will always support legislation which respects and values life. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#i #legislation #life #respects #support

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#care #continuously #control #costs #customer

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms