Value Shift Quotes

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Free trade will bring widespread discontent. It will revolutionize values. It will take away more than one half the earning capacity of brain and brawn.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

We may find that we are not always striving to preserve the same type of life, of even the same nation.

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

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories.