Value Distortion Quotes

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

It's insidious how Hollywood warps your values without you even realizing that it's happening to you. You get a little whiff of success and it whets your appetite, and before you know it you're going right down the road they've laid out for you.

Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.