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“There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.”

Values Culture Deny Arrogance Self Control Imperialism Hierarchy

Book:And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.”

Men Reason Purpose Values Work Results Source Pride Determine Rational Productive Hierarchy Integrating Productive Work

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.”

Values Sacred Holiness Inherent Hierarchy

Author:Starhawk

“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”

Kind Ideas Reality Values Culture Differences Liberty Principles Tradition Endure Libertarian Former Dimensions Biology Crucial Aggression Hierarchy Axioms

Author:Ilana Mercer

“As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.”

“Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.”

Moments Values Community Influence Online Hierarchy Adding Value

Author:Gary Hamel

“Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.”

Form Certain Values Games Moral Criticism Regard Lowest Hierarchy Moral Values Rhyming Inventiveness

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857