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“Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.”

Giving Values Leadership Conscience Determined Payment Giver True Value

Book:The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Source: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.”

Values Television Conscience Value Systems

Author:Lauren Zalaznick

“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”

Wells Action Values Voice Powerful Behinds Moral Opinion Judgment Creating Intellectual Conscience Concerned Difficulty Tables Noble Levers Refining Valuation

Author:Georg Brandes

“Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.”

Men May Values Choices Views Acting Particular Conscience Commitment Rational Agents Consistently Stance Evaluation Weber

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.”

Ifs Looks Values Next Left Loses Conscience Praise Praise God

Author:Izaak Walton

“No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.”

Ifs Men World May Values Fall Understanding Work Share Particular Conscience Ultimate Assuming Satisfaction

Book:Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

Source: Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

“I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.”

People Values Conscience

Author:Robert Orben

“Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.”

World Values Conscience Fascism Indignation Sneer

Author:Leon Blum

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”