# Quotes about values - Quotes: 13 - Authors: 11 - Broader topic: [Quotes about morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.json ## Quotes > It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. [Sigmund Freud](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud.md) · [Civilization and its Discontents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud/civilization-and-its-discontents.md) · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud/civilization-and-its-discontents/it-is-impossible.md) Topics: [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > If I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation I really don't know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. Values are very strange, they change so quickly I can’t keep track of them. (p21) [Leonora Carrington](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington.md) · [The Hearing Trumpet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington/the-hearing-trumpet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington/the-hearing-trumpet/if-i-remember.md) Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > Different people have irresolvably different views of the good life — not only at different periods of history and in different forms of society, but even in our own culture at the present time. [J. L. Mackie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie.md) · [Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics/different-people-have.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > The denial that there are objective values does not commit one to any particular view about what moral statements mean, and certainly not to the view that they are equivalent to subjective reports. [J. L. Mackie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie.md) · [Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics/the-denial-that.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > The kinds of behaviour to which moral values and disvalues are ascribed are indeed part of the furniture of the world, and so are the natural, descriptive differences between them; but not, perhaps, their differences in value. [J. L. Mackie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie.md) · [Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-l-mackie/ethics/the-kinds-of-behaviour.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters. [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md) · [The Engines Of God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god.md) · p. 398 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/show-me-what.md) Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > There really wasn’t much in a man’s life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly. [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [The Star Fox](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-star-fox.md) · p. 200 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-star-fox/there-really-wasnt.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in “Yes, I made a bad choice,” but as in “How does this choice reflect my values?” [Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) · p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/our-choice-of-partners.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can't measure. Think about that for a minute. It means that we make quantity more important than quality. [Donella H. Meadows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows.md) · [Thinking in Systems](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems/our-culture-obsessed.md) Topics: [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish. [Randy Pausch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch.md) · [The Last Lecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/we-keep-what.md) Topics: [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > What of it? We call them brave > > perhaps? Yes; what if the time should come > > when no one will fight for anything > > and there's nothing of worth to save. [Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore.md) · [The Poems of Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/what-of-it-we-call.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > The answer that socialism provided to the age-old question of the proper balance between the public and the private can now, from our current historical perspective, be seen to have been wrong. But if it was based on wrong, or at least incomplete, economic theories, theories that are quickly passing into history, it was also based on ideals and values many of which are eternal. It represented a quest for a more humane and a more egalitarian society. [Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz.md) · [Whither Socialism?](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/whither-socialism.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/whither-socialism/the-answer-that.md) Topics: [socialism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/socialism.md), [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md) > The need for values is inbred. Their content is not. [Alan Greenspan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-greenspan.md) · [The Age of Turbulence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-greenspan/the-age-of-turbulence.md) · p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-greenspan/the-age-of-turbulence/the-need-for.md) Topics: [values](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/values.md)