Social Worth Quotes

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

Every person who is laid off in our society is in effect told that he is a person of little worth.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.