On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
~By Ignazio Silone ~
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
~By Norman Thomas ~
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
~By Artur Davis ~
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
~By Joe Moore ~
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
~By Aesop ~
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
~By Gabriel Lippmann ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
~By David Rockefeller ~
It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.
~By Jim Wallace ~
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
~By Andrew Bernstein ~
Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
~By Alan Cranston ~
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
~By Bill Shuster ~
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
~By Bobby Orr ~
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
~By William Greider ~
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
~By Mike Rogers ~
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
~By Sydney Madwed ~
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
~By Joe Baca ~
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
~By Dennis Prager ~
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
~By George Santayana ~
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
~By John Pomfret ~
We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
~By Morarji Desai ~
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
~By Major Owens ~
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~By Gary Oldman ~
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
~By Wes Borland ~
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
~By Marvin Bower ~
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
~By Dean Inge ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
~By Samuel Dash ~
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
~By Steve Blake ~
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
~By George Soros ~
The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.
~By Claudia Kennedy ~
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~By Robert Altman ~
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
~By Ben Quayle ~
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
~By Barack Obama ~
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
~By Chris Patten ~
A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
~By Jose Carreras ~
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.
~By John Linder ~
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I represent the views and the values of the people of the district.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
~By Mark Foley ~
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~By Brian Tracy ~
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
~By David Korten ~
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
~By Anita Baker ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.
~By Harry Reid ~
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
~By Lin Yutang ~
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
~By Michele Bachmann ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
~By Meir Kahane ~
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
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