“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.” DoneValuesBeliefCausesAspectRootsHatredUniversalThreatJewCorePerceiveLastingIrrationalJudaismAllegianceRepresentingInexplicableCore ValuesRoot Cause Author:Dennis Prager
“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.” MindHumansMatterReasonRealityValuesJusticeWeaknessAspectAppearanceMannersHuman MindBiasSuperficialDisagreeableExteriorGildedBad Manners Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.” IdeasGovernmentLastsValuesLinesEconomicCapitalismAspectBottomCommunismCorporateGoodsEfficiencyBottom LinePublic ServiceSubordinatesAmerican LifeEconomic Power Author:Ellen Willis
“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsBeautifulValuesLeftSocialSportsSeaAspectRiversFishesAccomplishGenuineBoatStreamsLakesFishingSolitarySurroundingsCrowdedLeft AloneContemplativeTrout Author:John Gierach
“as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.” HumansValuesGroupsAspectDiscriminationRangeDominantDomainHuman Potential Book:Toward a New Psychology of Women Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women
“By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.” MomentsArtistValuesNatureInterestingObjectsHigherAspectSignificantCharacteristicsSeizing Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe