Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer Adler

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
Friedrich August von Hayek

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
Soichiro Honda

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
Julius Erving

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
David Ricardo

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
David Ricardo

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
David Ricardo

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
David Ricardo