Value System Quotes

“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.”
― David Harvey, A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1

“When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man’s failure to be what he might be and his misuse of his world. This revelation causes him to leap out in search of a way of life and system of values which will enable him to be more than he has been. He seeks a foundation of self-respect, which will have value system rooted in knowledge and cosmic reality where he expresses himself so that all others, all beings can continue to exist. His values now are of a different order from those at previous levels: They arise not from selfish interest but from the recognition of the magnificence of existence and the desire that it shall continue to be.”
― Clare W. Graves

“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Civilization is much more than the survival of the fittest and the unrelenting culling of the weakest members. Civilized people share a value system that extends far beyond doing whatever it takes to survive. Mere barbarians might be devoted to a life of exploitation. In contrast, civilized people value nature and care for the most vulnerable members of their kind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t just bring religion to people but also change their value system”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Position your value not your price”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The invisible things are the value system.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If we could believe so strong and strong enough in the invisible things like virtues and value system.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The value system of any society comes from the homes.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The value system of a country comes from the educational system.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Value system also comes from the mass media of the land.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Een klassiek boek is een boek van grote literaire waarde dat eeuwenlang door niemand gelezen is en daarom ook altijd groot gebleven is.”
― Kees Fens

“Change the value system of the people you are ministering to”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Don't ask for prices to fall, ask for your value to increase”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“A species that is more intelligent and advanced than us will have nothing like a moral value system for sure.”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“Values are determined by priorities.”
― Suzy Kassem