Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
— E. M. Forster
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Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
— David Miliband
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
— Ela Bhatt
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The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants…
— Nathan Lewis
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We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
— Van Jones
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Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to…
— Scott Perkins
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,…
— Gregory Bateson
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We can all agree that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, all children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and…
— Michelle Obama
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best…
— Joe Lieberman
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The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to…
— Richard Hofstadter
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Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they…
— Judy Chu
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Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure…
— Paul Samuelson
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The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,…
— Robert Solow
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that…
— Edward Albee
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As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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