Values Quotes

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I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Princeâ€”value Aâ€”to kill monstersâ€”value Bâ€”for the purpose of establishing orderâ€”value… — Catherynne M. Valente
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. — Og Mandino
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world… — Anne Rice
Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment. — Sidney Poitier
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing… — John Green
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~ — Michel de Montaigne
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it. — William Faulkner
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty… — E L Doctorow
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what… — Joan Didion
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun.… — Paulo Coelho
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear,… — George Orwell
You can lose yourself in repetitionâ€”quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. — Matthew Quick
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind… — Charles Stross
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong,… — Sylvia Plath
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated… — Gary L. Francione
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures.… — John Ortberg

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