Values Quotes

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

Life and values do run in cycles.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.