“I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFilmValuesHumanityHollywoodStructureProductionsCharmImmenseDistractedHardwareBollywoodHollywood Films Author:Julian Sands
“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.” WantFirstsWantedValuesLeaderMilitaryStructureLooking GoodArbitraryGangBabe Author:Peter Mullan
“Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.” ValuesMathematicsStructureEntertainmentTricksMathematical Author:Martin Gardner
“Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.” ValuesSocialStructureSocial Structure Author:Sheila Rowbotham
“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.” WorldWayMeanRealValuesCultureLove IsLoversEthicsStructurePrivilegeDisappearReal LoveNormBeing In LoveMean Love Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWould BeValuesNamesModernConversationStructureVainDevotedPakistanUtteranceCastesModern TimesAffluent Author:Sara Suleri
“Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.” WayIdeasHandsReligionValuesOrganizationRegardDown AndStructureRidiculousBrandsPermanentHeritageMechanismAdmirableSystematic Author:Susan Jacoby
“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” IfsWorldFirstsHeartImportantEndsHandsPoliticalValuesIndividualSocialQualityProductsProgramStructureWork OutHead And HeartZen Motorcycle MaintenanceSocial Values Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.” KnowsHumansMeanCountryValuesNextDealsMoralKnow HowIssuesGenerationsTaxesStructureLeavingBurdenDivorceDebtHuman LifeComponentsNext Generation Author:Rick Santorum
“In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.” ArtFactsPoetryValuesLiteratureImportanceAimStructureSakeSymbolsPrimariesInterconnectedMotifs Book:Anatomy of Criticism Source: Anatomy of Criticism