Value Judgment Quotes

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.

To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

A budget is a moral document.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Everybody is worth everything.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.