Social Values Quotes

“The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues."

"And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur."

"Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.”
― Timberlake Wertenbaker

“Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.”
― Russell Brand

“People who don't have values
Show their beauty
Who don't have beauty
Show their shame”
― Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

“None of the human qualities can be regarded as the social values without the one quality of humanity”
― J. Tisa

“In the end, it's not the market or technology that decides what has real value, but society. If we want this century to be one in which all of us get richer, then we'll need to free ourselves of the dogma that all work is meaningful. And, while we're at it, let's also get rid of the fallacy that a higher salary is automatically a reflection of societal value.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“Women like her caused declination of social values.”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

“Government simply cannot be run like a for-profit business.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Libraries are models of gift economies, providing free access not only to books but also music, tools, seeds, and more. We don't each have to own everything. The books at the library belong to everyone, serving the public with free books. Take the books, enjoy them, bring them back so someone else can enjoy them, with literary abundance for all. And all you need is a library card, which is a kind of agreement to respect and take care of the common good.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World