Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
~By Mike Pence ~
We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
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 ~
You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
~By Birch Bayh ~
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
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 ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
~By Joan Blades ~
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~By Bill Frist ~
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
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.
~By Jack Kingston ~
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
~By Frank Pittman ~
Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
~By Ella Maillart ~
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
~By Mark Rydell ~
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
~By William Greider ~
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
~By Lorin Maazel ~
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
~By Dennis Prager ~
We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
~By Peter Singer ~
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
~By Lars von Trier ~
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
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 ~
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
~By Laura Ingraham ~
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
~By Nat Friedman ~
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
~By Paul Berg ~
I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.
~By David Axelrod ~
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
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 ~
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 ~
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
~By Milton Friedman ~
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 ~
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
~By Joe Baca ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
~By Edward Levi ~
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.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
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 ~
Life is essentially a question of values.
~By Meir Kahane ~
We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
~By Morarji Desai ~
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
~By John Boehner ~
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
~By Sai Baba ~
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
~By Terry Southern ~
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 a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
~By Danny Aiello ~
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
~By Liv Ullman ~
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
~By Sai Baba ~
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
~By Jim Wallis ~
The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.
~By Judy Biggert ~
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
~By Sam Walton ~
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
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