“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Source: Differential Psychology: Towards Consensus (1987), p. 448
“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company's values. Values make an unsinkable ship.”
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Code of conduct goes beyond legal compliance and every employee needs to be well versed with it.
Quoted in "Fundamentals of India are strong: Indra Nooyi".
“The concept of a value-free science is absurd.”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 4 cited in: John B. Davis (2011)
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
"The Tyranny of Values" (1959)
Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 2, The Culture of the Internet, p. 48
Kenan Malik (1960) English writer, lecturer and broadcaster
Free speech in an age of identity politics (2015)
Context: To accept that certain things cannot be said is to accept that certain forms of power cannot be challenged.... This is why free speech is essential not simply to the practice of democracy, but to the aspirations of those groups who may have been failed by the formal democratic processes; to those whose voices may have been silenced by racism, for instance. The real value of free speech, in other words, is not to those who possess power, but to those who want to challenge them. And the real value of censorship is to those who do not wish their authority to be challenged. The right to ‘subject each others’ fundamental beliefs to criticism’ is the bedrock of an open, diverse society. Once we give up such a right in the name of ‘tolerance’ or ‘respect’, we constrain our ability to challenge those in power, and therefore to challenge injustice.
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
"The Zeitgeist Movement" (2009) https://stallman.org/articles/zeitgeist.html <br class="br">2000s
Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Context: Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values. The question you must ask yourself is, Are your values based upon principles? In the last analysis, principles are natural laws — they're impersonal, factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
p. 49
“I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 33e