Value Change Quotes

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

In the past Russia needed liberty to live better. It must now have it in order to survive…. The challenge of our times is an overhaul of the system of values, the forging of a new consciousness. We cannot build a new country with old thinking …

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

Value preferences of people change.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?