The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Those things are dearest to us that have cost us most.

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

That which cost little is less valued.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.