Old Values Quotes

• Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.

  Iain Pears

  Christian, Skills, Profound

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.49, Penguin

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• One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.

  Bette Ford

  Thinking, Survival, Pockets

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as celebrity chefs, chefs were trained and I like to think that I still represent those old values from that world and the opportunities that I am offered I often say no to.

  Marco Pierre White

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Fuente: www.notquitenigella.com

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• In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.

  James Hollis

  Spiritual, Lying, Fall

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.101, Penguin

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• Siempre discuto con gente que quiere conservar los viejos valores de la pintura, los valores humanistas que siempre encuentran en el lienzo. Si se les inmoviliza, siempre acaban afirmando que hay algo más que la pintura sobre el lienzo. Mi pintura se basa en el hecho de que sólo está ahí lo que se ve... Lo que se ve es lo que se ve.

  Frank Stella

  Personas, Quieren, Hechos

  "Questions to Stella and Judd". Interview with Bruce Glaser, www.artnews.com. September 1966.

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• I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.

  Lisel Mueller

  War, Grandparent, World

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Invertir la tendencia y reducir el papel del gobierno en nuestras vidas, y aliviar así el déficit público y las presiones inflacionistas, es una gigantesca tarea educativa. Las ideas sociales y económicas que dieron origen al sistema de transferencias deben ser desacreditadas y sustituidas por los viejos valores de independencia individual y autosuficiencia. La filosofía social de la libertad individual y la propiedad privada sin trabas debe volver a ser la luz que nos guíe.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). "La era de la inflación"

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• All things change.  The automobiles change every year.  [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition.  All things in the scientific world change.  But politicians do not change.  They carry old values and they don't even know it.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, Television, World

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• Hoy tenemos miedo de palabras sencillas como bondad, misericordia y amabilidad. No creemos en las viejas palabras porque ya no creemos en los viejos valores. Y por eso el mundo está enfermo.

  Lin Yutang

  Kindness, Believe, Simple

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• Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

  Bette Ford

  Art, Survival, Example

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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