Famous quotes containing the words valued, function and/or defined:
“A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The fact remains that the human being in early childhood learns to consider one or the other aspect of bodily function as evil, shameful, or unsafe. There is not a culture which does not use a combination of these devils to develop, by way of counterpoint, its own style of faith, pride, certainty, and initiative.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)