Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Value preferences of people change.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements

Differences between Hindus and Muslims are so fundamental that there is nothing that matters in life upon which we agree.

The laws of a country are a reflection of the values of the people.

What Americans should by now be able to see is that neither the laissez-faire marketplace nor strong government has given them a satisfying or permanent resolution. The problem is not the marketplace and it is not government. The problem originates in the contest of clashing values between society and capitalism and, since this human society cannot surrender its deepest values, it must try to alter capitalism's.

There is an inevitable conflict between different sections of The Constitution and also between The Constitution and certain values.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

I have no objection to the twist as such, but it does represent some kind of change of our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty, decency, and morality?

We know, deep down, that repression is not the wave of the future. We know that the desire for freedom is not confined to, or owned by, any culture; it is the inborn hope of our humanity. We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with preserving and protecting democracy.

Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark.

Friends before work.

Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.

What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.