Social Value Quotes

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Men do not take good iron to make nails or good men to make soldiers.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'

As a society, we cannot afford to waste our most valuable resources—our citizens.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall he worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do … Nothing should be made by man's labor which is not worth making; or which must be made by labor degrading to the makers

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

I have been a proponent of dramatically expanding the AmeriCorps program. By increasing the pay of participants to a living wage, it can act as a jobs program that, rather than trying to predict what will be technically viable jobs, will value social support and provide jobs that make communities stronger.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by becoming necessary.