Values Quotes

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Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize… — Tony Campolo
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more… — Bob Hawke
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of… — Denis Hayes
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the… — Peter R. Orszag
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.… — Swami Vivekananda
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? — Alan Greenspan
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To… — Paulo Freire
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or… — Matthew Coon Come
On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for… — David Suzuki
The roots of art and play lie very close together. — Angus Wilson
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel

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