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Values Quotes by Isaiah Berlin
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,…
- Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally…
- Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when…
- If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility…
- The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur