Values Quotes

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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. — Terry Goodkind
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion [â€¦] but rather by its superiority in applying organized… — Samuel P. Huntington
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after… — Brandon Sanderson
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of… — Pope John Paul II
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values… — Steven Pinker
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. — Julius Lester
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. — Terry Pratchett
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is… — Joyce Carol Oates
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the… — Fulton J. Sheen
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… — Rebecca Solnit
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and… — Fernando Pessoa
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic… — Jim Wallis
To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values… — Nathaniel Branden
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. — John Gardner

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