Character Quote by Herman Kahn

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

— Charles Krauthammer

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!

— Anonymous

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

— Stephen Covey

Values are good things only if they are good values.

— Michael Josephson

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without…

— Thomas Sowell

Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

— Stephen Covey

Value is coextensive with reality.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

— Dennis Prager

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

— William Greider

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

— H. P. Lovecraft