Standards And Values Quotes

• What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

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  Ann Bridge

  Advertising   Virtue   Modern  

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

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  Albert Einstein

  Skills   Humanity   Opening Your Mind  

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

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  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual   Parent   Disease  

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• The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

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  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Dimensions   Serious   Planning  

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

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  David Maister

  Believe   Excellence   Compromise  

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• I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

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  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking   People   Would Be  

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