Value Judgement Quotes

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know?

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

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

There's a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can't pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.

I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.